Just days away from their newest album Visions of Bodies Being Burned, experimental hip-hop trio clipping. After making us “Say the Name” with the album’s grooving first single, and making us Scream with “‘96 Neve Campbell,” the fast-rapping threesome have given us a look at a new track, the percussive and powerful “Pain Everyday.”
Sonically speaking, the track is very minimalistic, with drum samples littered throughout, and a string section coming in periodically to give a melancholy air to certain passages. It’s a schizophrenic, back and forth affair, with the aggression of the previous single “‘96 Neve Campbell,” but with a vulnerability that isn’t a common factor in clipping’s music. Contemplation and waxing poetic are far from new territory for band leader Daveed Diggs, but this one dips into topics such as purgatory, funerals, and celebrating those who have gone before us.
For what is to be a horror-themed album, and a follow up to last year’s There Existed an Addiction to Blood, it’s an emotionally evocative song, and yet it doesn’t feel too out of place for the group, or even against a backdrop of dread and despair.
The group’s new album Visions of Bodies Being Burned drops this Friday, October 23rd. Stay tuned for a review of that record shortly thereafter.
Check out the lyric video for “Pain Everyday” below:
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