Death Grips – Year Of The Snitch

Death Grips Year Of The Snitch vinyl brings one of the Sacramento trio’s most unpredictable records to your turntable, pressed on LP through Harvest Records (catalog 25 6778540). Death Grips, formed in 2010, built their reputation by colliding hip-hop with punk, noise, industrial, and electronics until the result barely resembled any of those things. The group is MC Ride on vocals, Zach Hill on production and drums, and Andy Morin on keys, and together they make rap music that sounds genuinely dangerous. Year Of The Snitch, their 2018 full-length, is the band operating with a loosened, almost chaotic energy compared to earlier work, which is saying something for a group that has never once played it safe.

What Makes Death Grips Year Of The Snitch Vinyl Worth Your Attention

The record opens with Death Grips Is Online and moves through twelve tracks that cover the full range of what this band does. Flies, Linda’s In Custody, and The Horn Section sit in the first half, each one shifting the ground beneath you before you’ve settled. Hahaha, Shitshow, and Streaky push into stranger territory. The back half, running through Dilemma, Little Richard, The Fear, Outro, and Disappointed, pulls together threads from across the record without ever quite resolving them. That refusal to resolve is the point. Year Of The Snitch rewards close listening and punishes passive play, which makes vinyl the right format for it. You will sit with this one.

Pressing and Label Details

This pressing is on Harvest Records, the major label imprint Death Grips have operated through for physical releases. The catalog number is 25 6778540. Death Grips have always attracted collectors partly because their physical output can be inconsistent to track down, appearing and disappearing without much warning. A clean copy of Year Of The Snitch on LP is worth holding onto. The tracklist is complete across both sides, and the format suits the sequencing well. If you already have The Money Store or No Love Deep Web in your collection, this belongs next to them. If this is your entry point into Death Grips, you are starting somewhere genuinely interesting rather than at the safe end.