The Money Store is the debut studio album by the group Death Grips. It was officially released on April 24, 2012, but was leaked to YouTube on April 14 and made available on vinyl on April 21 to celebrate Record Store Day. It was announced along with a second album, which would be titled No Love Deep Web. It is the follow-up to their debut mixtape Exmilitary. The album was first hinted at with the release of a music video for a track titled "Blackjack" on February 7, 2012. The album was later announced along with the release of another Read more on Last.fm.
Within the first two minutes of hearing The Money Store, I realized I was experiencing something I had never felt before; similar to the feeling one might have when wandering the deepest realities of an extremely vivid dream. Time and space began moving faster, as I witnessed the entire past, present, and future of human civilization play out before my eyes. Death Grips album “Money Store” has a primitive driving force that carries the listener through a chaotic world vision, in which there are no rules and only the strong survive.
Death Grips is unlike anything I’ve ever heard; combining hip-hop, punk and other various noises into a symphonic clusterfuck. The Money Store empowers the listener, helping reveal some of the universes best kept secrets.
All in all, this album left me intrigued and slightly terrified of MC Ride. I’ll be stoked to hear their next album.
If Exmilitary was meant to startle us awake, then it’s only right that The Money Store holds our eyelids open and commands our attention with an artfully apocalyptic presentation. We are Alex, and The Money Store is our Ludovico technique, only free from any intent to “rehabilitate.” No, Death Grips are agents of chaos, and their wild experimentation thrills and confuses me beyond belief. The noises are strange, jarring, uncomfortable, often arrhythmic, and always, always, always interesting. Harsh vibrations abound. I can’t say enough great things about this record on the whole. It’s a work that hip-hop as an art form really needed. Beyond that, “I’ve Seen Footage” is the best song of the year in my world.