This album feels like a deliberate challenge to Gaslamp Killer, not only to claim his throne as the most intense, crazy sample-based hip-hop sound in California, but also to reinstate the MC’s role firmly in the new era. Death Grips’ MC Ride shouts with an in-the-red intensity somehow stranded in the Bermuda Triangle of soccer hooligan chants, “Who Let the Dogs Out,” and Onyx.

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Diamond Watch Wrists is one part Zach Hill (Hella, Marnie Stern and sometimes L.A. Record illustrator) and one part Guillermo Scott Herren’s (Prefuse 73) will be releasing their first album…

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