CMU Approved

Approved: Clipping

By | Published on Wednesday 3 August 2016

Clipping

Since Clipping released their last album, ‘Clppng’, in 2014, frontman Daveed Diggs spent a year playing the roles of Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in the hit Broadway hip hop musical ‘Hamilton’. Shortly before his final performance in the show last month, the group returned with new EP ‘Wriggle’.

If Diggs becoming a theatre star had any effect on Clipping, it was only positive. As the EP’s title track shows, they’ve lost none of their fire or bite during their hiatus. And now they’re preparing to make a full return with new album ‘Splendor & Misery’ through Sub Pop on 9 Sep.

Keeping things theatrical, ‘Splendor & Misery’ is a concept album, which tells the story of the sole survivor of a slave uprising on an interstellar cargo ship, and the onboard computer that falls in love with him.

In a reverse of most dystopian tales, the survivor ultimately finds solace in humanity’s insignificance. Underpinning this, Diggs’ powerful delivery and the hard, experimental electronic production of Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson make for an impressive record.

Watch the video for ‘Baby Don’t Sleep’, directed by artist Cristopher Cichocki, here…

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