Death Grips have announced a follow album up to this year’s ‘Jenny Death’ called ‘Bottomless Pit’. Of course they aren’t letting the fact they officially broke up via napkin last year stop them. But then this is also the band that, after bizarrely signing to major label Epic Records, went behind Epic’s back and leaked their own album, ‘NO LOVE DEEP WEB’, on torrent sites with a picture of drummer Zach Hill’s erect penis as the album artwork.
The album was announced out of the blue on the bands Facebook page in a typically weird Death Grips fashion. The post simply read “We’ve decided to make a new Death Grips album and it will be called Bottomless Pit.” It was also accompanied by a fourteen minute video of the late actress Karen Black from 2013, reading out a script written by Zach Hill.
The video’s epigraph states: “Iconic 70’s film star Karen Black passed away in August 2013. In February of that year, Karyn Rachtman introduced Ms. Black to Zach Hill. The two immediately hit it off. Zach had written a part for Karen for a film he was developing and gave her the pages for her scenes. Though she didn’t know how the scenes would fit into the final film, she readily agreed to read her character’s dialog on camera for Zach.”
You can watch the video below:
Since they’ve ‘broken up’ the band dropped a stack of instrumentals for NY Fashion Week, along with promoting an album by the mysterious ‘the i.l.y’s’ called ‘I’ve Always Been Good at True Love’ (the band turned out to be Zach Hill and the band’s elusive engineer Andy Morin, with MC Ride making a guest appearance).