Name: Wriggle
Brand: Clipping

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SP1425X

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Colour

Turquoise

Colour details

Transparent Turquoise / Black

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Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-07-09

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0098787142501

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / turquoise

SP1425

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Black

Extended format: No

0098787142518

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Clipping

Genre GB

Hip Hop

Label GB

Sub Pop

Clipping is an experimental hip-hop group known for their innovative sound and thought-provoking lyrics. Formed in 2009, the trio consists of rapper Daveed Diggs, producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes. With a unique blend of industrial noise, glitchy beats, and socially conscious rhymes, Clipping has gained critical acclaim and a dedicated fan base. Their albums tackle themes such as race, identity, and politics with raw intensity and artistic flair. Whether it's through their powerful live performances or boundary-pushing studio recordings, Clipping continues to push the boundaries of what hip-hop can be.

Short for "Subterranean Pop" 

The label was an outgrowth of [a=Bruce Pavitt]'s Olympia, WA based (print) fanzine, which became the well respected cassettezine of the same name. 

After his move to Seattle he ran a music column in the Seattle Rocket also called Sub Pop.

After initial forays into the record label world with a [a=Green River] 7" (not officially on Sub Pop) and the Sub Pop 100 LP, the label exploded onto the indie scene with four influential colored vinyl 7"s which included [a=Mudhoney]'s "Touch Me I'm Sick" which made the year-end top 10 playlist of nearly every music journalist in the world.

Subsequent hyping of the label in the English music press put them on the map, and grunge was born.

Label-Code is 03159; rarely found printed on releases (basically only on releases manufactured/licensed by Warner/WEA Germany)

This LP finally brings a Clipping fan-favourite, 2016’s Wriggle, onto vinyl in an improved, expanded version that features new art, previously unreleased remixes, and a track that’s exclusive to the vinyl format.

The original, digital-only Wriggle EP was six tracks that weren’t finished in time to make it onto the group’s 2014 Sub Pop debut, Clppng. For “Shooter,” Clipping recorded themselves firing fifteen different guns, the sounds of which exclusively constituted the beat’s drums, augmented only by a synthesized tone-row. The verses referenced the well-worn technique of “hashtag rap,” but instead of using it to boast about the rapper’s personal wealth and masculine prowess, Clipping put forth imagistic narratives of three violent encounters. True to much of the group’s music, “Shooter” was an attempt to reframe a familiar style and test the limits of its formal capabilities. “Hot Fuck No Love” contains what might be the most explicit verse to date from Clipping’s favorite New Jersey rapper Cakes Da Killa. The EP’s title track, “Wriggle,” was built around a sample of the influential power-electronics song “Wriggle Like a Fucking Eel” by Whitehouse, transforming William Bennett’s torturous imperative into a instructional dance-floor banger. “Wriggle” and “Shooter” have become classic Clipping tracks and staples of their live show.

With this vinyl edition, Clipping fans old and new - and there are many new fans thanks to their breakout 2020 album, Visions of Bodies Being Burned, and Daveed Diggs’ thriving acting career - get the vinyl version of Wriggle they’ve been clamouring for.

Wriggle

Music GB

Buy clipping. - Wriggle (Vinyl, CD) now from Rough Trade - independent purveyors of great music, since 1976.