Government Plates

Hip-Hop · 2013 · 10 tracks · 35m

Government Plates

A cold, digital descent into paranoia. Minimalist vocal loops meet jagged electronic percussion in a record that sounds like a corrupted hard drive.

It's like being trapped in a haunted smart-fridge that's trying to kill you.

A cold, paranoid digital isolation that feels both claustrophobic and strangely hollow.

Government Plates · vs · Death Grips

Electronics/Laptop+1.5σ

The instrumentation foregrounds electronics/laptop notably more than the catalogue usually does.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks · 35m

01

You Might Think He Loves You for Your Money but I Know What He Really Loves You for It’s Your Brand New Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat

2:41

02

Anne Bonny

3:27

03

Two Heavens

3:02

04

This Is Violence Now (Don’t Get Me Wrong)

2:38

06

Feels Like a Wheel

2:22

07

I’m Overflow

3:09

08

Big House

2:19

09

Government Plates

2:42

10

Bootleg (Don’t Need Your Help)

2:06

11

Whatever I Want (Fuck Who’s Watching)

6:38

Moments Worth Waiting For

the sudden glass-shattering scream that opens the first track without warning

the hypnotic and hollow repetition of the title in 'This Is Violence Now'

the way 'Whatever I Want' collapses into a sprawling, druggy ambient drift before the final assault

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