Clipping announced release details their new album with Sub Pop, behold for Splendor & Misery out September 9th.
To celebrate, they’ve shared a new video for “Baby Don’t Sleep” directed by Cristopher Cichocki, featuring Diggs (frontman) rapping through distorted imagery.
Splendor & Misery is an Afrofuturist, dystopian concept album that follows the sole survivor of a slave uprising on an interstellar cargo ship, and the onboard computer that falls in love with him. Thinking he is alone and lost in space, the character discovers music in the ship’s shuddering hull and chirping instrument panels. William and Jonathan’s tracks draw an imaginary sonic map of the ship’s decks, hallways, and quarters, while Daveed’s lyrics ride the rhythms produced by its engines and machinery. In a reversal of H.P. Lovecraft’s concept of cosmic insignificance, the character finds relief in learning that humanity is of no consequence to the vast, uncaring universe. It turns out, pulling the rug out from under anthropocentrism is only horrifying to those who thought they were the center of everything to begin with. Ultimately, The character decides to pilot his ship into the unknown—and possibly into oblivion—instead of continuing on to worlds whose systems of governance and economy have violently oppressed him.
Clipping – Splendor & Misery
Tracklist:
1 Long Way Away (Intro)
2 The Breach
3 All Black
4 Interlude 01 (Freestyle)
5 Wake Up
6 Long Way Away
7 Interlude 02 (Numbers)
8 True Believer
9 Long Way Away (Instrumental)
10 Air ‘Em Out
11 Interlude 03 (Freestyle)
12 Break The Glass
13 Story 5
14 Baby Don’t Sleep
15 A Better Place
Pre-order the album on iTunes here:
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/splendor-misery/id1129570255
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