CLIPPING There Existed An Addiction To Blood

SUB POP 8/10

Gruesome murder stories from LA experimentalists

That the trio end this fourth LP with the sound of a piano burning for 18 minutes embodies their atypical approach. For this, rapper Daveed Diggs (Tonyaward-winning Hamilton star) and his bandmates reboot the ’90s hip-hop subgenre horrorcore with an avantgarde twist. Less like songs, these are grisly scenes where human remains are disposed of (“The Show”) and raps set to a backdrop of screams (“Club Down”). It’s all abrasive, but especially “La Mala Ordina” which features noise artist The Rita and sounds like a particularly macabre truecrime podcast set to the sound of an obliterating space rocket. Disturbing, but also enthralling.