Clipping’s ‘Wriggle’ EP Establishes Abusive Relationship Goals

Published: June 30, 2016
There’s a term often applied to certain kinds of music, “challenging,” that never really made sense to me. I’ve heard it used to describe free-form jazz, the trash-sound wranglings of Merzbow, the carefully plotted chaos of The Chariot, and so on and so forth. In the end, though, I’ve slotted it all into my two primary mental crates, “like it” and “don’t like it,” in statistically equal proportions. There were tracks along the way that required some patience to dissect, and some songs for which I transitioned from “this is great because it’s weird” to “wow, this is really just noise,” but I never felt “challenged” by any of it. Then Spotify Discover threw a Clipping track at me. The Wriggle EP, taken as a whole, is pretty indicative of their whole catalogue, in that overall I think it’s evidence of bona fide genius, but there are elements in nearly every one of their songs that I find sheerly annoying, as if it was specifically intended to piss me off. I want to love it, but if I ever dare get comfortable with it for a moment, it leers at me, eyes wide, saying “Fuck you. This isn’t for you. Don’t like it.” That’s a challenge. Wriggle by clipping.The introductory track matches the
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