Full Clipse

I was listening to Clipse's Hell Hath No Fury, the most recent long-player release from brother act Malice and Pusha-T and, well, it is simply ridiculous how good it is. Just when you thought that The Neptunes had really become too ubiquitous to ever sound creatively fresh again, and that Pharell had disappeared so far up his own posterior that he was seeing his Bapes from the inside, there they go and produce a classic. And what is really astonishing is that the record began being made in 2003, delayed in production and record label wrangling until late 2006. For other albums this might have meant an outdated sound and a stilted creativity, but Clipse have used the delay to ensure that every line and every beat is on point, crafting a dark and menacing masterpiece. It's like Shook Ones Pt1 across a whole album, only better.