Album Review: Clipping - Splendour & Misery

It's not often that a music review needs a spoiler warning.

The plot of Splendour & Misery - a dystopian sci-fi space tale told through Clipping's wonky, left-field rap - is gripping. The Breach opens with the tale of an escapee from a terrifying cargo ship. Our hero, referred to as Cargo Number 2331, is on a path to liberty. Things take an odd turn as we learn, "There's friendship in the wiring." This record is a dark space adventure told with bleep-bloop beats and cold, quasi-robotic delivery. A Better Place ends the record, and the story, musing "there must a better place to... be somebody else". Perhaps, but being here and listening to this unfold is pretty compelling too.