Death Grips drop new album Government Plates

Death Grips, the visionary, transgressive hip-hop group consisting of MC Ride, Flatlander and Zach Hill, today release another album via their Thirdworlds site, with their customary disregard for publicity, promotion, or the workings and schedules of the music industry.

Closest in tone to the overclocked digital aggression of last year's label-baiting, penis-adorned No Love Deep Web, the album – entitled Government Plates – sees them ploughing further into deconstructed techno, trap and hardcore with incendiary punk energy. There's a love of dissonance and discord throughout, eschewing the de-rezzed pop hooks of The Money Store in favour of boundary-pushing noise and punishing BPMs. Ride's lyrics are even more feral and deconstructed than ever, showing evidence of cut-up techniques and free association, alternating between surreal throwaway observations and excoriating, brutalist narratives from the edge of sanity and reason.

Two videos have also been unveiled, for the Dylan-referencing track You Might Think He Loves You For Your Money But I Know What He Really Loves You For It's Your Brand New Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat (instantly winning longest/weirdest title of the year), and Whatever I Want (Fuck Who's Watching). The latter features a man in a bomber jacket and skull mask creeping through a cornfield at night towards a darkened house... we don't want to give much more away, just press play below.

The release follows the news that Death Grips have inked a deal with Harvest / Capitol Records to make Thirdworlds a label imprint, in what Music Connection describes as "a very unique deal." Although further details on a physical release for Government Plates have yet to be confirmed, the deal will allow the band to release a physical copy of No Love Deep Web in the United States next Tuesday.

Download Government Plates now at Thirdworlds.net

Our interview with Zach Hill from 2012