The experimental hip-hop trio clipping., featuring rapper Daveed Diggs and producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes, has unleashed their sixth album, Dead Channel Sky, via Sub Pop. Known for pushing sonic boundaries, the Los Angeles-based group dives into a cyberpunk-inspired soundscape, blending industrial beats with rapid-fire rhymes. Released as a follow-up to their horrorcore series, this album marks a bold shift, fusing hip-hop’s raw energy with dystopian futurism.
Dead Channel Sky is a 20-track journey through a neon-lit alternate present, drawing from cyberpunk pioneers like William Gibson’s Neuromancer. Collaborations with Aesop Rock, Nels Cline, and Cartel Madras add texture to its glitchy, high-octane production. Tracks like “Change the Channel” and “Run It” pulse with urgency, reflecting a world of fractured realities and digital decay, all anchored by Diggs’ intricate lyricism.
Hailed as a “mixtape-like” love letter to hip-hop and cyberpunk’s shared roots, Dead Channel Sky arrives alongside a North American tour, kicking off in Los Angeles. Fans on X are buzzing, calling it a sensory overload of innovation. clipping.’s latest cements their status as avant-garde trailblazers, delivering a chaotic, captivating vision of now.
Dead Channel Sky Tracklist
- Intro
- Dominator
- Change the Channel
- Run It
- Go
- Simple Degradation (Plucks 1 – 13) ( with Bitpanic)
- Code
- Dodger
- Malleus (with Nels Cline)
- Scams (feat. Tia Nomore)
- Keep Pushing
- “From Bright Bodies (Interlude)
- Mood Organ
- Polaroids
- Simple Degradation (Plucks 14 – 18) (with Bitpanic)
- Madcap
- Mirrorshades Pt. 2 (feat. Cartel Madras)
- “And You Called (Interlude)
- Welcome Home Warrior (feat. Aesop Rock)
- Ask What Happened
