Bottomless Pit (album)

This article is about the album by Death Grips. For other uses, see Bottomless pit (disambiguation).
Bottomless Pit
Studio album by Death Grips
Released May 6, 2016
Recorded 2015–2016
Studio Sunset Sound Recorders[1]
Genre
Length 39:20
Label
Producer Death Grips
Death Grips chronology
The Powers That B
(2015)		 Bottomless Pit
(2016)
Singles from Bottomless Pit
  1. "Hot Head"
    Released: February 6, 2016
  2. "Eh"
    Released: May 5, 2016

Bottomless Pit is the fifth studio album by the group Death Grips, released on May 6, 2016 on Third Worlds and Harvest Records.[3]

Background

On October 21, 2015, the group uploaded a video to their YouTube page titled Bottomless Pit. It features footage from 2013 of the late American actress Karen Black reciting lines from a film script Zach Hill wrote months before her death. They also posted on their website and Facebook that this would be the title for their upcoming fifth official studio album.[4][5]

On February 6, 2016, Death Grips released a song called "Hot Head" from their upcoming album onto their SoundCloud and YouTube accounts.[6]

On March 18, 2016, the band published a Facebook post featuring the cover artwork for Bottomless Pit and the track listing. [7]

On April 19, 2016, the band announced a release date of May 6 via a Facebook post alongside a download link for a document containing lyrics for each track on the album.[8]

On April 29, 2016, the album was leaked in its entirety from the band's SoundCloud page via the website Reddit.[9]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic80/100[10]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[11]
Consequence of SoundB[12]
Pitchfork Media8.1/10[13]
PopMatters8/10[14]
Rolling Stone[15]
Spin8/10[16]

Upon release the album was met with widespread acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Bottomless Pit received an average score of 80 based on 10 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[10] Many critics, though acknowledging the greater sound quality of the album, compared the album to the band's debut album The Money Store in terms of structure and songwriting. Pitchfork Media wrote, "On their new album 'Bottomless Pit', they stitch together one of their most cohesive grotesques ever, renewing their focus on songcraft, rather than chicanery."

In a glowing review Pretty Much Amazing described the album as "The best release from one of the most exciting artists of the 2010s",[17] while PopMatters stated, "Bottomless Pit will clearly not be for all hip-hop or punk fans, but it is impossible to deny that this album, just like the rest of the duo’s catalog, is doing a much-needed service to both genres by experimenting with them in unimaginable ways."

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Giving Bad People Good Ideas"   3:07
2. "Hot Head"   4:18
3. "Spikes"   3:05
4. "Warping"   2:54
5. "Eh"   2:52
6. "Bubbles Buried in this Jungle"   2:40
7. "Trash"   2:52
8. "Houdini"   2:44
9. "BB Poison"   3:06
10. "Three Bedrooms in a Good Neighborhood"   3:03
11. "Ring a Bell"   2:26
12. "80808"   3:16
13. "Bottomless Pit"   2:55
Total length:
 39:20

Personnel

Death Grips
Additional musicians

Charts

Chart (2016) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[20] 193

References

  1. ↑ https://twitter.com/bbqdbrains/status/728739045912666112
  2. ↑ http://www.spin.com/2016/05/review-death-grips-bottomless-pit/
  3. ↑ Strauss, Matthew (2016-03-18). "Death Grips Detail New Album Bottomless Pit | News". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2016-03-18.
  4. ↑ "Bottomless Pit". Death Grips. October 21, 2015. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Death Grips Announce 'Bottomless Pit' Album". Exclaim!. October 21, 2015. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Death Grips - Hot Head". YouTube. 2016-02-06. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
  7. ↑ "Timeline Photos". M.facebook.com. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
  8. ↑ "Death Grips - the digital release date for our new album... | Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  9. ↑ "zach here, your welcome. :: deathgrips". reddit.com. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
  10. 1 2 "Reviews for Bottomless Pit by Death Grips". Metacritic. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
  11. ↑ Wacey, Rob. "Bottomless Pit – Death Grips". AllMusic. Retrieved May 23, 2016.
  12. ↑ Barry, Sean (May 6, 2016). "Death Grips – Bottomless Pit". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
  13. ↑ Camp, Zoe (May 12, 2016). "Death Grips: Bottomless Pit". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
  14. ↑ Elone, Emmanuel (May 10, 2016). "Death Grips: Bottomless Pit". PopMatters. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
  15. ↑ Weingarten, Christopher R. (August 1, 2016). "Review: Death Grips' 'Bottomless Pit' Sounds Like No Punk on Earth". Rolling Stone. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  16. ↑ Reeves, Mosi (May 11, 2016). "Review: Come Test Death Grips and Get Sliced on 'Bottomless Pit'". Spin. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
  17. ↑ Fowler, Luke (May 12, 2016). "Review: Death Grips, Bottomless Pit". Pretty Much Amazing. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
  18. ↑ https://twitter.com/bbqdbrains/status/728739501523099648
  19. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/BFFijqVi3XC/?taken-by=clembutt
  20. ↑ "Death Grips – Chart history" Billboard 200 for Death Grips. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
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