Death Grips: Fashion Week (Third Woods) Less than a year after their disbanding, here’s a collection of instrumentals that highlights how little they sounded like other hip-hop artists—if I had to guess without knowing, I might say this was Skrillex. These short recordings are strong, even exceptional at times, but without MC Ride on the mic, they also lose some of the intensity central to the band’s sound. What you’re left with is reading music, albeit perfectly adequate reading music. But Exmilitary, The Money Store, and No Love Deep Web are all great, and I rarely find the time to listen to them, so what chance does this have? B+
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