Length 47:48 Artist Death Grips Label Third Worlds | Producer Death Grips Release date 4 January 2015 Genre Intelligent dance music | |
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Released January 4, 2015 (2015-01-04) Fashion Week
(2015) The Powers That B
(2015) Similar The Powers That B, Niggas on the Moon, Government Plates, Exmilitary, The Money Store | ||
Fashion Week is an instrumental soundtrack by experimental hip hop group Death Grips. It was self-released, available for free, on January 4, 2015 via Third Worlds, without any prior announcement. It was the band's first release after their supposed disbandment in 2014, and also the first release to not feature vocals from frontman MC Ride.
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Death grips fashion week instrumentals runway j
Background
Fashion Week was described by the group as a “soundtrack.” A leaked .zip file was shared via Reddit in late-2014, containing 6 tracks from the album and 2 unreleased tracks, but was initially dismissed by fans as fake. The song titles, follow as: "Runway J", "Runway E" and so on; acrostically spelling out the phrase "JENNY DEATH WHEN", in reference to the upcoming second disc of The Powers That B.
The album art features an image of artist Sua Yoo, who designed the band's cover art for The Money Store.
Critical reception
Calum Slingerland of Exclaim! stated: "The noticeable absence of MC Ride's commanding roar will no doubt be a point of accessibility for those just discovering the group's music, though it would be a welcome way to liven up some of the more drawn out, repetitive instrumental moments." Spin critic Dan Weiss wrote: "Fashion Week is very different from any other Death Grips album just for being so linear, and while Stefan Burnett's guttural, performance art-ish MCing is missed, their astoundingly dark and imaginative sonic palette remains intact." Weiss also stated: "Fashion Week tempts one to think of Nine Inch Nails' similarly vocal-less online souvenir Ghosts I-IV" Nate Patrin of Pitchfork criticized the album's lack of vocals, stating: "The album needs the percussive abrasion of his [MC Ride's] voice, and digging into some of the more typical slabs of Death Grips' instrumental tendencies doesn't unearth much more than a pretty solid workout soundtrack. " The Quietus critic Calum Bradbury-Sparvell described the album as "the most vibrant and least menacing collection of tracks Death Grips have released."
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Songs
Runway J4:10
Runway E3:15
Runway N2:43