Bottomless Pit (album)


Bottomless Pit is the fifth studio album by experimental hip hop group Death Grips, released on May 6, 2016 through Third Worlds and Harvest Records.

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.
On February 6, 2016, Death Grips released a song called "Hot Head" from their upcoming album onto their SoundCloud and YouTube accounts.
On March 18, 2016, the band published a Facebook post featuring the cover artwork for Bottomless Pit and the track listing.
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.
On April 29, 2016, the album was leaked in its entirety from the band's SoundCloud page via the website Reddit.

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 80 based on 11 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". 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 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." Pretty Much Amazing described the album as "the best release from one of the most exciting artists of the 2010s", 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 trio's catalog, is doing a much-needed service to both genres by experimenting with them in unimaginable ways."

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Bottomless Pit.
Death Grips
Additional personnel