Misc. Day – Broken Bones

No Love Deep Web is the violent child of overpowering synthesizers, a dramatic vocal performance, and a primal sense of understanding. The album perfectly balances both heightened sensation and the relation to inner destruction. No Love Deep Web not only gets in your face and destroys everything in sight, but it also taps into the inner-working of schizophrenia, paranoia, and elemental aggression.

Death Grips is like another wonder of the world; they are interesting to not only see, but to experience. No Love Deep Web is an experience like no other, from the first synth lead on “Come Up and Get Me” to the moment the track leads into MC Ride’s first vocal performance of the album, it has this immense amount of animation. The track moves through these varying beat patterns that include Ride with an exerting scream that appears all throughout No Love Deep Web.

This is easily Ride’s most intense form of vocal performance to date. Rather than simply rapping, he shouts every single lyric and there would be no other way that Death Grips would work without it. Between the vast amount of percussion, the varying beats laid with keyboards, and the aggressive vocals, they all compliment each other and make what Death Grips is. No Love Deep Web capitalizes on this concept and creates an in your face, primal rage of an album.

Throughout No Love Deep Web, there are these interesting beat changes that not only vary the songs flow, but vary the sounds used as well. The percussion is intricate, but also feels natural. Zach Hill does a perfect job of creating these near ritualistic sound with his drums, twisting them and distorting them like in the track “No Love.”

This track is the heavy-hitting, ear numbing, destroyer that has one of the most memorable beats of No Love Deep Web. “No Love” is a powerful onslaught that also includes a great percussion break in-between the constant pounding of the bass drum. The snare bounces and creates this strange but catchy tap beat when compared, the whole track is overall deafening. However, the snare break is able to reel the track back into a less aggressive flow.

Following “No Love” is “Black Dice,” this track has a low tuned bass undertone, with a more fore-frontal, higher pitched synth part that seems to echo throughout the song. It creates an interesting duality within the track as both instruments seem to build each other up. The track then leads into these great synth chords and then abruptly cuts off leading into the next track.

“World Of Dogs” has this strangely enticing beat with what sounds like a double bounce dream. The bass drums bang out these great eighth notes and the lyrics are what steals the spotlight. The “Mountains of Teeth,” and the line “It’s all suicide to me” floats out of Ride’s Monotone voiced. “World Of Dogs” and No Love Deep Web as a whole, has this overarching theme of death and suicide attached to it.  Not only is MC Ride’s lyrics intense, but they also touch upon all the thoughts of one who is going breathe one’s last breath

The next track “Lock Your Doors” is what a tornado of fire would sound like. The track is not only aggressive like the rest of No Love Deep Web, but the track is also disturbed. Ride continues with the subject of misery, “Come on stick me, cut e, drain me, suck me, drink me, take me down.”

No Love Deep Web is aggressive, forceful, but ultimately full of vitality. I loved Ride’s vocal performances and Zach Hill was absolutely incredible with the percussion work.

The final track “Artificial Death in the West” features one of the less punishing tracks of No Love Deep Web. The track is able to blend what sounds like a drive through city outskirts at night, and an impressive display of vocalization and reverberation. While it does not fit the other tracks as well, it ends the album on a higher note and creates this great sense of space.

Not only is No Love Deep Web a crushing album full of fractured bones, loud screams, and an overly abrasive tone, but it is also filled with a certain beauty to the destruction. It obliterates, but it also rebuilds.