I still don't get the concept despite of reading it dozens of time on their bandcamp, I wanna see how the songs connect with the storyline.. it would be cool if somebody makes a breakdown analysis of the album.
This is one of the most ambitious (and pulled-off) albums I've heard in a long time, irrespective of genre. Clipping just made life a lot more difficult for everyone else.
story 5 is legitimately the calmest yet the saddest song I've ever heard from clipping a better place hits me hard S&M captures the harshness of their older work while revealing even the darkness has a glimpse of light best album of 2016
(Long Way Away: Intro) [Verse: Paul Outlaw] I'll follow the stars when the sun goes to bed Till everything I've ever known is long dead I can't go back home 'cause I want to be free Someone tell the others what's become of me
(The Breach) [Verse: Daveed Diggs] Generally operating normally A small anomaly has become evident And probably should be noted There is spiking in the pulse of a member of the cargo And the crew and other passengers have not begun to notice The facility you certainly have taken steps to cultivate For all intents and purposes would totally accept it But the readings that are coming through While not negating wholly the hypothesis Seem to be unable to suggest it First: the recommended course of action should be to Administer a sedative to all the cargo via ventilation The ship is fully capable of automating this But requires an approval code from the administration Again, it cannot easily be overstated the importance of alacrity In acting out the task commanded The pulses of the cargo are still rising and endorphins That are often linked to violence are too critical to manage Now: one specifically is up and moving to the door He has found the access panel situated in the floor He is entering the codes and overriding has begun Reading rage in the nervous system, nothing can be done It seems to circumvent necessity of physical restraints Send security immediately over to the gate And remember that these beings were selected for their strength Use your army sense accordingly in order to be safe
(All Black) [Intro] Warning: mothership reporting Cargo number 2331 has commandeered the vessel Warning: mothership reporting Cargo number 2331 is armed and he is dangerous Warning: mothership reporting Cargo number 2331 is setting a new course Warning: mothership reporting Mothership reporting: [Hook 1] All black everything All black everything All black everything All black [Verse 1] No landing, geared up for arrival, nowhere to arrive to The subject seems upset by that to which he is subjected But convinced he brought it on himself That's why he roll with a bible on the console Inconsolable, no consolation, no cancellation Not turning all keys, he puts the ship through paces And paces the halls, pacing is madness Patience is virtuous, patient of these observations It was all a dream, he poses by the lift outside the mezzanine Like a photo in a magazine And always keeps the weapons' magazines clean Paranoia prone, he babbles beautifully Of Babylon and enemies and foes And forgoing food sustains himself on anger A danger to himself and others but there are no others So the danger clear and present is presented as The gift of freedom wrapped in days of rapping to himself Until his vocal cords collapse, he's in the galley screaming [Hook 2] (All black everything) He shouts at the dark, stands back Counting the seconds before his voice returns (All black everything) No more cracks in the hull The small crack in the skull healed up quickly, now it is (All black everything) The space stretches on and the pace that he's on Matters not as he hurtles into the (All black everything) He repeats it at night with the lights out in his cot crying soft curses into the (All black everything, all black everything) (All black everything, all black) [Verse 2] Something within this one's different The others died so easily and he is so persistent He never did bleed out and fever couldn't kill his system Though it was pumped through all the vents In the event of a total loss of control He quotes Kendrick's "Control" verse and spews his vitriol Into the echoes of the bowels of this floating metal hull And holds his pillow for dear life while he grinds his teeth at night And he rarely makes requests except to say, "Turn on the lights." But there is so much more to give He ignores processing power He stumbles to the shower, a ritual of some sort And he insists on speaking passages before he eats And he keeps asking if these programs carry any beats [Hook 3] The reply is (All black everything) His vitals read normal but his face reads murderous Something hides within the (All black everything) He tries, overrides, and he thinks he has been locked out By some other force in the (All black everything) He doesn't suspect this is the heart that's been keeping him out For it has been warned to be (All black everything) And in this program to transport nothing more But he's unlocked something new inside this (All black everything) (All black everything, all black everything) (All black) [Verse 3] Look how he flexes in the mirror So vain he probably thinks this song is about him All songs are about him Look how perplexed and how sincere His lame attempts to fix the wrong around him Can't go long without him His bouts of stasis are torture He feels them not, like a brief sleep While ship's clocks count millennia The course relentlessly forward, the gears are hot The driest creek while he pit-stops, calling for anyone But dare not stay long, he knows they're coming for him That time will not afford him Any cover, any pardon This is the choice that he has made No matter how much time or space has passed since his escape He is still a runaway slave and so lonely If only he realized this ship is more than metal There's friendship in the wiring, and so lonely If only he realized this ship has many levels There's pleasure in here hiding, come find it Don't mind this frame, time has made stranger bedfellows Made foes lovers before, there's no reason to torture yourself further You've lost it all already, you deserve more than you're getting [Hook 4] For the sake of not upsetting order in the (All black everything) He must find a place to be still The body can only take so much (All black everything) The navigations are failing, having traveled further than before Into the (All black everything) But they won't quit, they carry on He carries on, he will not be victim to the (All black everything) His survival is paramount, there is no other objective Safe passage through the (All black everything) (All black everything, all black everything) (All black everything, all black) [Outro] Warning: mothership reporting This will be the last report, turn back, everything is fine Warning: mothership reporting Cargo number 2331 is not a danger, let him be Warning: mothership reporting If you continue to pursue there will be no choice but to destroy you Warning: mothership reporting This love will be defended at all costs, do not fuck with it [Hook 1] All black everything All black everything All black everything All black
(Interlude 01: Freestyle) [Verse] The enemy, called the first shot on the first ship to be Free from your trade, I'm a traitor, so be If you took all you have and flew off to where no one could see Word on the radio, I'm a suspect Yeah you know the name ho, come get Some if you want it but it ain't no fun Turn your whole bridge into Room 101 That one you son for the "yes sir, no ma'am" Know I'm damn near nothing bout 'em, boy 'bout it Heard him shoutin', right? Yup! Told 'em how he ride? Uh-huh Head bustin' shit, fuck it, turn to ride, let 'em know, click! Do you wanna ride or die? La la la la la la... Fuck a whole ship, fuck it's a glory sight La la la la la la la... Call me good boy, no, I'm god, boy Quietly did our jobs for you and talk code in our [?] five on ya [?] called on and draw first blood So that all of us could break the chains...
(Wake Up) [Verse 1] The chance that he ever reaches any place Suitable to support life in his lifetime's pretty low (Get low) Pretty low, (Get low) pretty low, (Get low) pretty low (Get low) And the chances of him of ever seeing anybody That he knows are even lower so he's making up his mind to just go (Let go) Just go, (Let go) just go, (Let go) just go (Let go) So it's one shot in the arm (One shot in the arm) Hazy in the head (Hazy in the head) Set the timer once (Set the timer once) Lay down in the bed (Lay down and) Close the hatch trying to clear your mind Cause nightmares and alarms blowing kill the time If you have a God say something sublime Deep breath and leave it behind you ready to (Jump) Be right here when you wake up (Jump) Be right here when you wake up (Jump) Be right here when you wake up (Jump) Be right here when you wake up (Jump) There'll be no here when you wake up (Jump) There'll be no here when you wake up (Jump) There'll be no here when you wake up (Jump) There'll be no here when you wake up [Hook] Slow blood Slow blood Slow blood [Verse 2] Somewhere in sleep is a brainstorm And the EKG spikes and the Nerves fire like flies lightly then Die slightly each night alright alright alright It's an artifact apparently Similar to a muscle memory And he grabs her ropes and chokes back songs like Tears like stars like gears and moving Picture's picture perfect Paint a perfect picture perforate it Rip it up into a thousand jagged edges He's embarrassed of the love he has For things you never knew Didn't you know Happiness is waiting at your door In a sleek black dress and a kiss that says "hello" And a thick black mess and a mom that says "don't go" And a cul-de-sac so cold it'll hold you close when the Stores all close and the clothes so thin to begin with When the wind rips they blow Pretty low, (Get low) pretty low, (Get low) pretty low, (Get low) pretty low (Get low) Just go, (Let go) just go, (Let go) just go, (Let go) just go (Let go) [Hook] Slow blood (I follow the stars when the sun goes to bed) Slow blood (Everything I've ever known is long dead) Slow blood (I can't go back home cause I wanna be free) Slow blood (Someone tell the others what's become of me)
(Long Way Away) [Chorus] It's a long way away It's a long way away And I'm all alone Along, along a long way [Verse] There's no use in crying No reason to wait (Long way away) We'll not again meet 'Cause the distance is great (Long way away) But look to the stars Where the sun is long gone (Long way away) And pray that your children Do not sing this song [Chorus] It's a long way away It's a long way away And I'm all alone Along, along a long way [Chorus] It's a long way away It's a long way away And I'm all alone Along, along a long way [Outro] Echo, India, Quebec, India
Long Way Away (Intro) - 0:00 The Breach - 1:05 All Black - 2:01 Interlude 01 (freestyle) - 8:16 Wake Up - 9:51 Long Way Away - 11:57 Interlude 02 (Numbers) - 13:27 True Believer - 14:31 Long Way Away (Instrumental) - 18:16 Air 'Em Out - 19:08 Interlude 03 (Freestyle) - 22:58 Break the Glass - 24:07 Story 5 - 26:30 Baby Don't Sleep - 29:33 A Better Place - 32:40
All Black shouldn't even be like, a rap song. Trying to rap over that shit live and not accidentally flow ahead or behind yourself takes some talent. He's definitely counting his rests between verses.
Tbh, its nothing That remarkable, apart from his ability to deliver the lines so well physically, because he has a good sense of time/tempo/feel for the so-called groove, or what drummers call "staying in pocket". What he does during those fast verses is that he just maps out where every word (as well as syllables in it) is in a mental 16th note map, in which he Can go as fast as the 16th notes, or he can go slower in either quarter notes, 8ths, triplets, quintuplets as an example of more unconventional rhythms, etc. This actually can be applicable to All lyrics ever written, if you know the tempo of the song. What you do is just follow the vocalist by counting how many syllables there are in one measure, whatever it might be, and how they are spaced out/performed. The only reason this might seem like something ungodly might be due to the fact that there arent a lot of Well known rappers, who actually employ this approach, at least lately. Also, I am Not saying that he necessarily writes his lyrics in such a way - its just that you can approach lyrics in such a way, if you please. However, I watched the latest Fantano interview with clipping., and in it they talked about Snipes telling the guys that they lacked a song in 7/8 measure in "Visions of Bodies Being Burned", which led to the creation of "Pain Everyday" and, as Digs himself described it, a mental breakdown to write lyrics in the measure, so he might have been thinking in the way I described Then.
@@19RaxR91 Killer reply man, Ive wracked my brain about this shit for a long time. It's incredibly interesting to know that breakdown of the method. What other rappers have incorporated that method? I used to be a huge Fantano stan and music geek but Ive kinda fallen out of recent.
Yeah, I been sleepin', just heard these guys in October'19 when they released "There once was an addiction to blood". That shit blew me away as has everything I've heard since. Wicked, wicked band. Sicksicksick. Keep it coming, boys.
1. Long Way Away (Intro) 0:00 2. The Breach 1:05 3. All Black 2:00 4. Interlude 01 (Freestyle) 8:16 5. Wake Up 9:50 6. Long Way Away 11:56 7. Interlude 02 (Numbers) 13:27 8. True Believer 14:32 9. Long Way Away (Instrumental) 18:15 10. Air 'Em Out 19:08 11. Interlude 03 (Freestyle) 22:58 12. Break the Glass 24:08 13. Story 5 26:30 14. Baby Don't Sleep 29:33 15. A Better Place 32:41
Genre bending, gorgeous, hypnotic, awe-inspiring, spiritual, sweet and angry mix of human angst. "There must be a better place to be somebody else". WOW!
This album is amazing, short but amazing.Noise rap, scifi, ol'blues singers, light and dark...This is a journey, a very creative and powerful albumThank you Clipping
A Better Place is so beautiful. I swear I can feel the fog in my brain clearing as the ship's engines cycle up for that one last jump into the great dark beyond, all desperate, loving hope for something more.
tracklist: 1. Long Way Away (Intro) 0:00 2. The Breach 1:05 3. All Black 2:00 4. Interlude 01 (Freestyle) 8:16 5. Wake Up 9:50 6. Long Way Away 11:56 7. Interlude 02 (Numbers) 13:27 8. True Believer 14:32 9. Long Way Away (Instrumental) 18:15 10. Air 'Em Out 19:08 11. Interlude 03 (Freestyle) 22:58 12. Break the Glass 24:08 13. Story 5 26:30 14. Baby Don't Sleep 29:33 15. A Better Place 32:41
Already got the preordered and listened all the way through. Such a dope record. Felt too short, though! Then again, one can never have enough clipping., so I guess that should have been expected.
I agree, but at the same time, felt like it made a complete statement and any longer might have betrayed its narrative. Perhaps that's why we also got Wriggle though, y'know?
This might just be my favorite album by them. Damn good shit. I gotta be honest though: am I the only person who looks at the album cover and thinks of Moon on BO1?
Holy God This is amazing. I've never heard Daveed's band before, but this is just incredible writing. I love it. And the music is really good too. This is my new obsession lol
Well, I'd call it less his band than just, more the project he is with, where he happens to be the most famous. Afterall, William Hutson, one of the producers with Jonathan Snipes, has a Doctorate in Exeperiemental Music with a disertation.
I feel like in long way away it’s been recorded and cargo is listening to it in the ship and during the middle of the song it transforms into hearing them sing and record originally and I kinda makes sense that way into the storyline, or at least to me it does
"Splendor & Misery is an Afrofuturist, dystopian concept album that follows the sole survivor of a slave uprising on an interstellar cargo ship." I'm wondering if this was influenced by the first Unreal video game because this is almost the same exact plot as the video game.
Ben Zoller there's some differences. First off, I wouldn't really describe Unreal as Afrofuturist. Second, while the ship crashes and the protagonist explores an alien world in Unreal, in Splendor and Misery, Cargo #2331 is stuck on the ship, evading pursuers and slowly realizing his cosmic insignificance. Also, Cargo #2331 falls in love with the ship's AI, whereas no parallel narrative exists within Unreal.
@@notiddypunkgf2246 I've always interpreted All Black as being from the ship's point of view, not Cargo #2331's. I think the ship has fallen in love with him.
A forward-and-sideways thinking hip hop concept album, fucking incredible. Even if you don't like hip hop in general, you have to stand in awe at what they attempt to do here.
yo, clipping, love y'all, love your music, and y'all inspire my script writing with your precise word choice and punchlines, but, I gotta ask; what the hell happened on Story 5? like, it's a gorgeous tune, but it's the LAST thing I expected from a noise-hop record. That and Long Way Away almost feel like sad sailor songs, like long-forgotten pirate shanties. I love them both, but I'm curious what your artistic decisions were to include these tracks into the narrative. I understand you're probably not gonna read this, but I need to satiate my curiosity somehow. Much love from Sac!
I think the album is a mix of a sci-fi sort of adventure going on mixed with slavery oppression, so like making these songs that call back a shanty style is a sort of state of catharsis for the concept they're building. It works surprisingly well imo
true believer's gotta be the best song on here. the way the cover of "i know when i'm going home" is worked in as the hook is stunning and a great contrast to the rest of the song
i never really liked clipping.'s grounded in reality stuff before so to see something taking place in the future but having a cohesive story from them is really cool
So basically the simple version of this story I gathered is that this man went into space somehow, for some reason. There were other people he misses, but he is alone with only religion and nostalgia to keep him sane. The ship he is on is sentient and does not like to see him fall apart, so he is put in some sleep/stasis. While there his thoughts are scattered with memories and more religious stories and song. But then something makes him wake up, so he bargains with the ship to help him and the ship listens. But just being awake isn't enough for the ship, it wants the human to upload his mind to last beyond his body (i also believe earlier its hinted Humans are the only species with this gift) and eventually the human agrees.
In that instance I feel as though the effect would have been better if they removed it from the Clipping "brand". So to speak. Kind of like how Justin Vernon releases solo projects under different names in order to highlight thematic difference.
It was a good choice not to have a "its clipping bitch" because in this it's a full story, and by adding that, you would probably break the immersion that the first 3 songs create beautifully.
I liked a fair bit of what I was hearing on this record. I was really digging Wake Up, True Believer, and Baby Don't Sleep in particular. Those are the ones I would take from this album and put in a playlist. Not as much as I like other albums of theirs, but another solid effort from Clipping.
Title: Splendor & Misery (2016) by Clipping, @clppng an Afrofuturist hip-hop space opera. info en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splendor_%26_Misery hip hop genre: rap opera or hip hopera describe both dramatic works and concept album
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"WARNING: This love will be defended at all costs. Do not fuck with it. " I have a new motto.
Where were you when Clipping released the best scifi novel never written?
I woke up and the cassette was on my porch matt. best Friday ever :)
On my couch, eyes wide and growing redder by the minute.
I still don't get the concept despite of reading it dozens of time on their bandcamp, I wanna see how the songs connect with the storyline.. it would be cool if somebody makes a breakdown analysis of the album.
just wait for people to upload their lyrical interpretations on Geniuslyrics.com . That was basically how I enjoyed their eponymous album.
but what about deltron 3030?
This is one of the most ambitious (and pulled-off) albums I've heard in a long time, irrespective of genre. Clipping just made life a lot more difficult for everyone else.
story 5 is legitimately the calmest yet the saddest song I've ever heard from clipping
a better place hits me hard
S&M captures the harshness of their older work while revealing even the darkness has a glimpse of light
best album of 2016
^^^^^^^^^ despite you like minions, I agree
+KING OF CACTI my bro just ignore the fact I like minions and realize I'm a diehard fan just yourself you feel me? tranquility is the key
King Minion
experience tranquility? wat?
A L L B L A C K E V E R Y T H I N G
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🐈⬛
This is a masterpiece. Hands down.
I have no idea how this isnt like a mainstream classic like... i can not describe this shit...
We want this album adapted to a short film ASAP.
*full length film
if it weren't for this comment, i wouldn't have listened to this album. thank you so much
I never knew how much I wanted SciFi Rap until recently. Been hooked on this shit for days.
I hope in the 3 years since you wrote this comment that you have discovered Deltron 3030
@@brianstiles1701 Took the words..
(Long Way Away: Intro)
[Verse: Paul Outlaw]
I'll follow the stars when the sun goes to bed
Till everything I've ever known is long dead
I can't go back home 'cause I want to be free
Someone tell the others what's become of me
(The Breach)
[Verse: Daveed Diggs]
Generally operating normally
A small anomaly has become evident
And probably should be noted
There is spiking in the pulse of a member of the cargo
And the crew and other passengers have not begun to notice
The facility you certainly have taken steps to cultivate
For all intents and purposes would totally accept it
But the readings that are coming through
While not negating wholly the hypothesis
Seem to be unable to suggest it
First: the recommended course of action should be to
Administer a sedative to all the cargo via ventilation
The ship is fully capable of automating this
But requires an approval code from the administration
Again, it cannot easily be overstated the importance of alacrity
In acting out the task commanded
The pulses of the cargo are still rising and endorphins
That are often linked to violence are too critical to manage
Now: one specifically is up and moving to the door
He has found the access panel situated in the floor
He is entering the codes and overriding has begun
Reading rage in the nervous system, nothing can be done
It seems to circumvent necessity of physical restraints
Send security immediately over to the gate
And remember that these beings were selected for their strength
Use your army sense accordingly in order to be safe
(All Black)
[Intro]
Warning: mothership reporting
Cargo number 2331 has commandeered the vessel
Warning: mothership reporting
Cargo number 2331 is armed and he is dangerous
Warning: mothership reporting
Cargo number 2331 is setting a new course
Warning: mothership reporting
Mothership reporting:
[Hook 1]
All black everything All black everything All black everything All black
[Verse 1]
No landing, geared up for arrival, nowhere to arrive to The subject seems upset by that to which he is subjected But convinced he brought it on himself
That's why he roll with a bible on the console
Inconsolable, no consolation, no cancellation
Not turning all keys, he puts the ship through paces
And paces the halls, pacing is madness
Patience is virtuous, patient of these observations
It was all a dream, he poses by the lift outside the mezzanine Like a photo in a magazine
And always keeps the weapons' magazines clean
Paranoia prone, he babbles beautifully
Of Babylon and enemies and foes
And forgoing food sustains himself on anger
A danger to himself and others but there are no others
So the danger clear and present is presented as
The gift of freedom wrapped in days of rapping to himself
Until his vocal cords collapse, he's in the galley screaming
[Hook 2]
(All black everything)
He shouts at the dark, stands back
Counting the seconds before his voice returns
(All black everything)
No more cracks in the hull
The small crack in the skull healed up quickly, now it is
(All black everything)
The space stretches on and the pace that he's on
Matters not as he hurtles into the
(All black everything)
He repeats it at night with the lights out in his cot crying soft curses into the
(All black everything, all black everything)
(All black everything, all black)
[Verse 2]
Something within this one's different
The others died so easily and he is so persistent
He never did bleed out and fever couldn't kill his system
Though it was pumped through all the vents
In the event of a total loss of control
He quotes Kendrick's "Control" verse and spews his vitriol
Into the echoes of the bowels of this floating metal hull
And holds his pillow for dear life while he grinds his teeth at night
And he rarely makes requests except to say, "Turn on the lights."
But there is so much more to give
He ignores processing power
He stumbles to the shower, a ritual of some sort
And he insists on speaking passages before he eats
And he keeps asking if these programs carry any beats
[Hook 3]
The reply is
(All black everything)
His vitals read normal but his face reads murderous
Something hides within the
(All black everything)
He tries, overrides, and he thinks he has been locked out
By some other force in the
(All black everything)
He doesn't suspect this is the heart that's been keeping him out
For it has been warned to be
(All black everything)
And in this program to transport nothing more
But he's unlocked something new inside this
(All black everything)
(All black everything, all black everything)
(All black)
[Verse 3]
Look how he flexes in the mirror
So vain he probably thinks this song is about him
All songs are about him
Look how perplexed and how sincere
His lame attempts to fix the wrong around him
Can't go long without him
His bouts of stasis are torture
He feels them not, like a brief sleep
While ship's clocks count millennia
The course relentlessly forward, the gears are hot
The driest creek while he pit-stops, calling for anyone
But dare not stay long, he knows they're coming for him
That time will not afford him
Any cover, any pardon
This is the choice that he has made
No matter how much time or space has passed since his escape
He is still a runaway slave and so lonely
If only he realized this ship is more than metal
There's friendship in the wiring, and so lonely
If only he realized this ship has many levels
There's pleasure in here hiding, come find it
Don't mind this frame, time has made stranger bedfellows
Made foes lovers before, there's no reason to torture yourself further
You've lost it all already, you deserve more than you're getting
[Hook 4]
For the sake of not upsetting order in the
(All black everything)
He must find a place to be still
The body can only take so much
(All black everything)
The navigations are failing, having traveled further than before
Into the
(All black everything)
But they won't quit, they carry on
He carries on, he will not be victim to the
(All black everything)
His survival is paramount, there is no other objective
Safe passage through the
(All black everything)
(All black everything, all black everything)
(All black everything, all black)
[Outro]
Warning: mothership reporting
This will be the last report, turn back, everything is fine
Warning: mothership reporting
Cargo number 2331 is not a danger, let him be
Warning: mothership reporting
If you continue to pursue there will be no choice but to destroy you
Warning: mothership reporting
This love will be defended at all costs, do not fuck with it
[Hook 1]
All black everything
All black everything
All black everything
All black
(Interlude 01: Freestyle)
[Verse]
The enemy, called the first shot on the first ship to be
Free from your trade, I'm a traitor, so be
If you took all you have and flew off to where no one could see
Word on the radio, I'm a suspect
Yeah you know the name ho, come get
Some if you want it but it ain't no fun
Turn your whole bridge into Room 101
That one you son for the "yes sir, no ma'am"
Know I'm damn near nothing bout 'em, boy 'bout it
Heard him shoutin', right? Yup!
Told 'em how he ride? Uh-huh
Head bustin' shit, fuck it, turn to ride, let 'em know, click!
Do you wanna ride or die?
La la la la la la...
Fuck a whole ship, fuck it's a glory sight
La la la la la la la...
Call me good boy, no, I'm god, boy
Quietly did our jobs for you and talk code in our [?] five on ya
[?] called on and draw first blood
So that all of us could break the chains...
(Wake Up)
[Verse 1]
The chance that he ever reaches any place Suitable to support life in his lifetime's pretty low
(Get low) Pretty low, (Get low) pretty low, (Get low) pretty low (Get low)
And the chances of him of ever seeing anybody
That he knows are even lower so he's making up his mind to just go
(Let go) Just go, (Let go) just go, (Let go) just go (Let go)
So it's one shot in the arm (One shot in the arm)
Hazy in the head (Hazy in the head)
Set the timer once (Set the timer once)
Lay down in the bed (Lay down and)
Close the hatch trying to clear your mind
Cause nightmares and alarms blowing kill the time
If you have a God say something sublime
Deep breath and leave it behind you ready to
(Jump) Be right here when you wake up
(Jump) Be right here when you wake up
(Jump) Be right here when you wake up
(Jump) Be right here when you wake up
(Jump) There'll be no here when you wake up
(Jump) There'll be no here when you wake up
(Jump) There'll be no here when you wake up
(Jump) There'll be no here when you wake up
[Hook]
Slow blood
Slow blood
Slow blood
[Verse 2]
Somewhere in sleep is a brainstorm
And the EKG spikes and the
Nerves fire like flies lightly then
Die slightly each night alright alright alright
It's an artifact apparently
Similar to a muscle memory
And he grabs her ropes and chokes back songs like
Tears like stars like gears and moving
Picture's picture perfect
Paint a perfect picture perforate it
Rip it up into a thousand jagged edges
He's embarrassed of the love he has
For things you never knew
Didn't you know
Happiness is waiting at your door
In a sleek black dress and a kiss that says "hello"
And a thick black mess and a mom that says "don't go"
And a cul-de-sac so cold it'll hold you close when the
Stores all close and the clothes so thin to begin with
When the wind rips they blow
Pretty low, (Get low) pretty low, (Get low) pretty low, (Get low) pretty low (Get low)
Just go, (Let go) just go, (Let go) just go, (Let go) just go (Let go)
[Hook]
Slow blood (I follow the stars when the sun goes to bed)
Slow blood (Everything I've ever known is long dead)
Slow blood (I can't go back home cause I wanna be free)
Slow blood (Someone tell the others what's become of me)
(Long Way Away)
[Chorus]
It's a long way away
It's a long way away
And I'm all alone
Along, along a long way
[Verse]
There's no use in crying
No reason to wait (Long way away)
We'll not again meet
'Cause the distance is great (Long way away)
But look to the stars
Where the sun is long gone (Long way away)
And pray that your children
Do not sing this song
[Chorus]
It's a long way away
It's a long way away
And I'm all alone
Along, along a long way
[Chorus]
It's a long way away
It's a long way away
And I'm all alone
Along, along a long way
[Outro]
Echo, India, Quebec, India
Long Way Away (Intro) - 0:00
The Breach - 1:05
All Black - 2:01
Interlude 01 (freestyle) - 8:16
Wake Up - 9:51
Long Way Away - 11:57
Interlude 02 (Numbers) - 13:27
True Believer - 14:31
Long Way Away (Instrumental) - 18:16
Air 'Em Out - 19:08
Interlude 03 (Freestyle) - 22:58
Break the Glass - 24:07
Story 5 - 26:30
Baby Don't Sleep - 29:33
A Better Place - 32:40
Thank you I hope you have a wonderful life
Defiantly one of the most unique record of the year. Gonna give this one a bunch of repeat listens for sure.
All Black shouldn't even be like, a rap song. Trying to rap over that shit live and not accidentally flow ahead or behind yourself takes some talent. He's definitely counting his rests between verses.
The talent to stay on pace for that song in particular is incredible when you're actually focussing on it
Tbh, its nothing That remarkable, apart from his ability to deliver the lines so well physically, because he has a good sense of time/tempo/feel for the so-called groove, or what drummers call "staying in pocket".
What he does during those fast verses is that he just maps out where every word (as well as syllables in it) is in a mental 16th note map, in which he Can go as fast as the 16th notes, or he can go slower in either quarter notes, 8ths, triplets, quintuplets as an example of more unconventional rhythms, etc. This actually can be applicable to All lyrics ever written, if you know the tempo of the song. What you do is just follow the vocalist by counting how many syllables there are in one measure, whatever it might be, and how they are spaced out/performed.
The only reason this might seem like something ungodly might be due to the fact that there arent a lot of Well known rappers, who actually employ this approach, at least lately. Also, I am Not saying that he necessarily writes his lyrics in such a way - its just that you can approach lyrics in such a way, if you please.
However, I watched the latest Fantano interview with clipping., and in it they talked about Snipes telling the guys that they lacked a song in 7/8 measure in "Visions of Bodies Being Burned", which led to the creation of "Pain Everyday" and, as Digs himself described it, a mental breakdown to write lyrics in the measure, so he might have been thinking in the way I described Then.
@@19RaxR91 Killer reply man, Ive wracked my brain about this shit for a long time. It's incredibly interesting to know that breakdown of the method. What other rappers have incorporated that method? I used to be a huge Fantano stan and music geek but Ive kinda fallen out of recent.
@@19RaxR91 bro that's so rad, thanks you for elaborating
@@19RaxR91 cool reply brother thanks for the info :)
Fav. Songs: All Black, Wake Up, Long Way Away, True Believer, Air 'Em Out, Story 5, Baby Don't Sleep, A Better Place
Least Fav. Song: N/A
10/10!!!!!
"A Better Place" samples "Kaneda" from the Symphonic Suite Akira Soundtrack. I thought that was pretty cool.
I’m not sure I heard it
There is such brilliance within. I will be listening for years to come.
I only regret I cannot get the patch now. My uniform will never achieve its possible glory.
Still listening?
I love how from the first 2 tracks we can tell almost perfectly that the AI wanted the "cargo" to kill their captors from the start.
Thank you, Sub Pop, for allowing us to experience this without commercials chopping it up!
Not anymore :(
Damn. That’s such a vibe killer.
there's a channel called Polyphonic who did a rly good analysis of this album. i highly recommend it :)
Yeah, I been sleepin', just heard these guys in October'19 when they released "There once was an addiction to blood". That shit blew me away as has everything I've heard since. Wicked, wicked band. Sicksicksick. Keep it coming, boys.
This.
Grace
is a certified hood classic
Permission to adapt this into a screenplay please
Yeah, and let Lin direct it.
Jonovan
sure, but Daveed better be the lead role
Cast all white people.
loll
its called "alien"
I'm 5 tracks in and I can tell this the best hip hop album I've ever heard.
ye
_Is this __-Rap-__ / __-Hiphop-__ / __-R'nB-__ or __-Electro-__ ???_
- it is: *"ElecHop"* short, harsh and powerful.
its noise-hop, brah
That's an odd name for a music genre, ElecHop sounds much better, and more on point.
It's called noise-hop because it's a mixture of noise music and hip hop
this is basically Clipping 3030
1. Long Way Away (Intro) 0:00
2. The Breach 1:05
3. All Black 2:00
4. Interlude 01 (Freestyle) 8:16
5. Wake Up 9:50
6. Long Way Away 11:56
7. Interlude 02 (Numbers) 13:27
8. True Believer 14:32
9. Long Way Away (Instrumental) 18:15
10. Air 'Em Out 19:08
11. Interlude 03 (Freestyle) 22:58
12. Break the Glass 24:08
13. Story 5 26:30
14. Baby Don't Sleep 29:33
15. A Better Place 32:41
Genre bending, gorgeous, hypnotic, awe-inspiring, spiritual, sweet and angry mix of human angst. "There must be a better place to be somebody else". WOW!
Best clipping. record yet
This album is amazing, short but amazing.Noise rap, scifi, ol'blues singers, light and dark...This is a journey, a very creative and powerful albumThank you Clipping
The vibes that roll through this album are astounding. Amazing concept and album.
I have no idea what is going on here, and I fucking love it
without a doubt one of the best records ever written. Banging this loud in prep for seeing them live in an hour or so - excited doesn't even cut it
Favorite album of 2016 for me! It's so solid that I refused to review it. Words just don't do it justice.
A Better Place is so beautiful. I swear I can feel the fog in my brain clearing as the ship's engines cycle up for that one last jump into the great dark beyond, all desperate, loving hope for something more.
a musical experience for sure
I thought I was ready for this I was so fucking wrong
The use of shortwave sounds for the interludes made me 100% fall in love with this album.
tracklist:
1. Long Way Away (Intro) 0:00
2. The Breach 1:05
3. All Black 2:00
4. Interlude 01 (Freestyle) 8:16
5. Wake Up 9:50
6. Long Way Away 11:56
7. Interlude 02 (Numbers) 13:27
8. True Believer 14:32
9. Long Way Away (Instrumental) 18:15
10. Air 'Em Out 19:08
11. Interlude 03 (Freestyle) 22:58
12. Break the Glass 24:08
13. Story 5 26:30
14. Baby Don't Sleep 29:33
15. A Better Place 32:41
I LOVE this album! More people need to know about clipping.
Already got the preordered and listened all the way through. Such a dope record. Felt too short, though! Then again, one can never have enough clipping., so I guess that should have been expected.
Yeah, should've been 8 hours long. Why eight? Eh, just shot out a number. Wouldn't complain, though.
AnUntitledAbridger Not at all. Would have felt more like a mini-series than a movie at that point lol would have been dope~
gg
I agree, but at the same time, felt like it made a complete statement and any longer might have betrayed its narrative. Perhaps that's why we also got Wriggle though, y'know?
Legend tells if you can gather enough likes then you can summon the best teeth in the game.
Can't wait to hear his reaction. Probably something like "clanthanony fliptano here"
Anderson Paak?
One of the few musical acts to make each release listenable the whole way through.
This might just be my favorite album by them. Damn good shit. I gotta be honest though: am I the only person who looks at the album cover and thinks of Moon on BO1?
i think i get ya
What the fuck did I just listen to. I just sat at my PC and stared into space for 40 minutes. Absolutely captivated.
Holy God
This is amazing. I've never heard Daveed's band before, but this is just incredible writing. I love it. And the music is really good too. This is my new obsession lol
Well, I'd call it less his band than just, more the project he is with, where he happens to be the most famous.
Afterall, William Hutson, one of the producers with Jonathan Snipes, has a Doctorate in Exeperiemental Music with a disertation.
Late late late to the party, but now that I'm here I'll stay forever. So dope.
I just found this
same i am obsessed
"You inhibit a world where hue is not a death sentence."
I really hope they release the acapella's for this. I can see samples from 70's sci film soundtracks working well
Holy shit, I knew this would be a great album, but jesus, I was blown away with this, fantastic stuff, AOTY 2016!
I feel like in long way away it’s been recorded and cargo is listening to it in the ship and during the middle of the song it transforms into hearing them sing and record originally and I kinda makes sense that way into the storyline, or at least to me it does
"Splendor & Misery is an Afrofuturist, dystopian concept album that follows the sole survivor of a slave uprising on an interstellar cargo ship." I'm wondering if this was influenced by the first Unreal video game because this is almost the same exact plot as the video game.
Ben Zoller there's some differences. First off, I wouldn't really describe Unreal as Afrofuturist. Second, while the ship crashes and the protagonist explores an alien world in Unreal, in Splendor and Misery, Cargo #2331 is stuck on the ship, evading pursuers and slowly realizing his cosmic insignificance. Also, Cargo #2331 falls in love with the ship's AI, whereas no parallel narrative exists within Unreal.
@@notiddypunkgf2246 Why do you talk like such a wanker
@@letz5464 Projecting much?
@@letz5464 what are you on about?
@@notiddypunkgf2246 I've always interpreted All Black as being from the ship's point of view, not Cargo #2331's. I think the ship has fallen in love with him.
God DAMN that opening hits it straight out of the gate.
17:14 "I love french fries, I've been a french fry."
Polyphonic brought me here !
Too bad my english is not enough to appriciate the work !
What an amazing, interesting album.
Wasn't expecting this.
I loved it !
Damn. This album is AMAZING.
A forward-and-sideways thinking hip hop concept album, fucking incredible. Even if you don't like hip hop in general, you have to stand in awe at what they attempt to do here.
theres something so heart wrenchingly beautiful about the intro Long Way Away
It is an excellent artistic work, a total musical experience.
Happy anniversary to this masterpiece.
Say what you will about 2016, It's been a hell of a year for experimental hip hop and noise music.
Goddamn, I love you, clipping., all three of you crazy freaks. Thank you for such amazing music!
yo, clipping, love y'all, love your music, and y'all inspire my script writing with your precise word choice and punchlines, but, I gotta ask;
what the hell happened on Story 5? like, it's a gorgeous tune, but it's the LAST thing I expected from a noise-hop record. That and Long Way Away almost feel like sad sailor songs, like long-forgotten pirate shanties. I love them both, but I'm curious what your artistic decisions were to include these tracks into the narrative. I understand you're probably not gonna read this, but I need to satiate my curiosity somehow.
Much love from Sac!
they're actually supposed to be slave shanties
yeah, but the general aesthetic remains the same imho. Just curious what compelled such a tonal shift, y'know
I think story 5 is a reference to story 1.
I think the album is a mix of a sci-fi sort of adventure going on mixed with slavery oppression, so like making these songs that call back a shanty style is a sort of state of catharsis for the concept they're building. It works surprisingly well imo
like the song was cool but they didn't need to call it that
true believer's gotta be the best song on here. the way the cover of "i know when i'm going home" is worked in as the hook is stunning and a great contrast to the rest of the song
song 5 is hard to listen to when your name is grace
Come home, grace
This is what I call pushing boundaries! Just when you thought you had Clipping figured out..
Hi I’m just hearing about this today and this guy is a freaking genius. Masterpiece of an album
THAT INTRO WAS AMAZING!!! I love this album so much, and I hope for even better albums in the future, love you Clipping. ❤️❤️❤️
We in the stratosphere boyz
AMAZING concept album, holy shit
I need a Clipping + Zeal and Ardor gig near my house. The thematics are so fitting and different at the same time =]
A freakin' masterpiece.
I've never heard anything like this. I love it.
just got nominated for a Hugo award for excellence in science fiction! first album nominated since 1970 I think. yay!
Warning: Mothership reporting
All Black Everything
This will be the last report
This love will be defended at all costs...
Do not fuck with it.
clipping should release a novel with this album
it took me way too long to realize the genius of the raps over the ambient ship sounds in the context of the album's story
I would LOVE a sequel to this
i never really liked clipping.'s grounded in reality stuff before so to see something taking place in the future but having a cohesive story from them is really cool
This whole album is godlike. Would make a good movie
So basically the simple version of this story I gathered is that this man went into space somehow, for some reason. There were other people he misses, but he is alone with only religion and nostalgia to keep him sane. The ship he is on is sentient and does not like to see him fall apart, so he is put in some sleep/stasis. While there his thoughts are scattered with memories and more religious stories and song. But then something makes him wake up, so he bargains with the ship to help him and the ship listens. But just being awake isn't enough for the ship, it wants the human to upload his mind to last beyond his body (i also believe earlier its hinted Humans are the only species with this gift) and eventually the human agrees.
The reason he went to space is that the slave trade was revived in the future, that’s why his name is cargo 233.
Get melon man Fantano on the phone
Probably busy getting his twitter back lmao
+Colin Chobert What happened to his Twitter?
OurMine hacked it lmao
get god on the phone!
Fuck Fantano
I need to find more albums like this
wow first listen to this group(?) and they already took me on a trip.
thank you polyphonic. i knew great hip-hop existed, i just didn't know where to look
I feel really dumb what’s polyphonic
Most disappointing aspect is there isn't a "IT'S CLIPPING BITCH".
In that instance I feel as though the effect would have been better if they removed it from the Clipping "brand". So to speak. Kind of like how Justin Vernon releases solo projects under different names in order to highlight thematic difference.
At least have it hidden in between the noise or hushed, so it won't disturb the theme.
Nah
It's still Clipping bitch :)
It was a good choice not to have a "its clipping bitch" because in this it's a full story, and by adding that, you would probably break the immersion that the first 3 songs create beautifully.
I remember listening to Yeezus by Kanye West and how it got me into all this gritty, mimimal rap.
This is truly a masterpiece
I liked a fair bit of what I was hearing on this record. I was really digging Wake Up, True Believer, and Baby Don't Sleep in particular. Those are the ones I would take from this album and put in a playlist. Not as much as I like other albums of theirs, but another solid effort from Clipping.
MMMPHF That rare as fuck musical saw sound.. 18:20
God I love that instrument!
this is amazing. someone put me onto some more music like this.
This comes up 4th on a UA-cam search for "full album"
can't wait for the sequel where cargo #2331 crashes on a rogue planet and turns it into his rebel fuck house
This is the accidental spiritual sequel to Relationship of Command.
This shit is sick man im lovin All Black
I always thought Daveed sounded robotic in the way he raps, so I guess this is fitting.
X'Elias of Rivia listen to him when rapping with rafael casal he sounds more alive
Memethony Fantango here.
Strong 8
Light 9
Single manly tear for Story 5, brilliant
This is an incredible masterpiece, I didn’t know about it...
love it
Such a beautiful and chilling album.
Title: Splendor & Misery (2016)
by Clipping, @clppng
an Afrofuturist hip-hop space opera.
info en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splendor_%26_Misery
hip hop genre:
rap opera or hip hopera
describe both dramatic works and concept album