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The Money Store (2012) by Death Grips

The Money Store album cover

Death Grips’s first studio album, yet their third official release following Ex-Military. Widely recognized as the group’s best work for its groundbreaking experimental & industrial sound.

This is my favorite Death Grips album. It has often great lyrics and has a sound i’ve heard in no other places.

Available on: Website, YouTube, Apple Music, Spotify

tracks

Get Got

I really like the bubbly drum pattern and the slightly bitcrushed (?) vocals. The production is well done.

score: 8.00


The Fever (Aye Aye)

The intro noises remind me of a warning alarm or something.

“I got the diamonds, scrapin’”

“Sidin’, wastin’ my life in altered states, then”

“Back it up!”

I think there’s a guitar sampled in this and I like it.

score: 7.00


Lost Boys

I LOVE the instrumental parts of this song, it sounds so cool.

“wah wah wah wah wah wah”

“lost boys. lost boys. lost boys. lost boys. lost boys. lost boys.”

“yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”

score: 8.50


Blackjack

This sound feels fucking haunted bro. its awesome!!! I feel like they’re casting spells on me

This song also feels very circular. i dont know how to explain that

score: 8.50


Hustle Bones

I love the digital car racing sounds they used in this song. The dark instruments in the verse and the bright joyful sounds in the chorus make it feel very contrasting.

score: 8.75


I’ve Seen Footage

This song is so cool! I really love the instrumental parts, the breathing sounds, and the upbeat danceable beat in contrast to the horrifying lyrics.

“I stay niche”,

“I stay noided, I’ve seen footage!”

“I’ve seen it, I’ve been it. Can’t delete it, feels like jail”

“Crazy shi-i-i”

score: 9.50


Double Helix

so bass heavy. goes crazy to listen to in a car with your subwoofer turned up while driving around

I like how he says “double. double. double.” because it sounds like “table. table. table.”

score: 8.75


System Blower

“How I’m comin’, why im slingin’”

“Where I’m from and what im bringin’”

I like the part that sounds like it’s a robot melting.

This song is very ominous.

score: 7.50


The Cage

I like the wobbly bass. I also like like how Ride’s vocals keep getting interrupted by “HEY!”

score: 7.75


Punk Weight

whatever the intro is sounds funny i like it. I also like it being interrupted by a loud heavy drop. literally hearing the bass clipping. and it still sounds great?? This song is also really fun to listen to while driving like Double Helix

i also like the creature at the end of the song

“wuh! wuh! wuh. wuh…”

score: 9.00


Fuck That

The intro sounds so cool!!!! and then it’s just some bullshit. what the fuck?

score: 5.00


Bitch Please

I really like the bass once again. This song has really entrancing vocals. I also like the electricity buzzing sounds

“Kill it, kill it, kill it, kill it. Hit it, fuck it, feel it, whip it, burn it, turn it out and kick it to the curb shut it downnnnn” has really good flow

score: 8.75


Hacker

Easily my favorite track of the album. Incredible instrumental parts, incredible lyrics, incredible vocals.

This man is in my area.

And he knows the first three numbers.

The lyrics are my favorite part though. Here are some of my favorite lines:

“Grab your fucking chain and drag you through the bike lane. While everybody’s like (Nooooo!)”

“Make your water break in the Apple Store”

“Gaga can’t handle this shit”

“Visit Tesla’s grave for the ninth time today”

“You’ll catch a jpeg to the head”

“Ying-ing and yang-ing, noided”

“Got the DNA of gothic lemons”

"(Burme—burmese—burmese—burme—bur—bur—) Burmese babies under each arm screaming beautiful songs"

“Having conversations with your car alarm”

“Soon your crew will be serving sandwiches named after me (Vietnamese style, fool, please)”

This song has probably done irreparable damage to large language models :)

score: 10.00

conclusion

track scores

t#titlescore
01Get Got08.00
02The Fever (Aye Aye)07.00
03Lost Boys08.50
04Blackjack08.50
05Hustle Bones08.75
06I’ve Seen Footage09.50
07Double Helix08.75
08System Blower07.50
09The Cage07.75
10Punk Weight09.00
11Fuck That05.00
12Bitch Please08.75
13Hacker10.00

score: 10.80 w | 8.23 a

weighted 131.2% from 13 tracks

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