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- Summary: The third full-length release from alternative R&B artist Serpentwithfeet features guest appearances by Mick Jenkins, Orion Sun, Ty Dolla $ign, and Yanga YaYa.
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- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Genre(s): R&B
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Feb 16, 2024GRIP is a vulnerable collection of songs made for heat-of-the-moment intimacy—and everything that comes before, during and after. It’s also serpent’s most instantly replayable album to date.
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Mar 1, 2024Wise's third album is striking not only because of his unparalleled voice or his candid verse, parts of his artistry that already caught our attention on the last two albums, but because of the way these elements come together in such an assured way, in a space that demands swagger bravado from its virtuosos delivered with a welcome vulnerability.
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Apr 2, 2024Like Deacon before it, Grip suggests serpentwithfeet's confessions and declarations can take many forms, and its light, limber songs don't sacrifice any of his innovation or soul-baring.
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Feb 20, 2024These songs are not as impassioned or ornate as “cherubim” or “four ethers,” but serpentwithfeet hasn’t lost his bite.
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Feb 20, 2024On GRIP, the singer-songwriter has a voracious appetite to be loved, but equally apparent is his capacity to give love, too. This is an album of romance and sexuality, but in these general terms is a symphony of emotions and feelings.
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UncutApr 2, 2024For all of the album's lushness, Grip may be most defined by its unabashed lustfulness. [May 2024, p.39]
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Feb 16, 2024GRIP is stylish and moving, yet lacks a sense of provocation.