Description

The 2021 edition of Wriggle features new artwork, guests, and previously unreleased remixes. Included are the original versions of the title track, Shooter, Hot Fuck No Love (feat. Cakes Da Killa & Maxi Wild), Our Time (feat. Nailah Middleton), along with Back Up 2021 feat. SB The Moor and a new verse from industrial-rap experimentalist Debby Friday. Wriggle also features remixes of the title track from Drum & Bass/Breakbeat act Homemade Weapons and Classicworks label co-founder Cardopusher, a rework of Back Up by Fade To Mind producer Dave Quam (formerly Massacooramaan), and Chicago footwork producer Jana Rush delivers both the Hot Fuck No Love (Naughty Bitch Remix) for the vinyl version, and Shooter (Face Rearranged Remix) for the digital release.

The original, digital-only Wriggle was six tracks that werent finished in time to make it onto the groups 2014 Sub Pop debut, CLPPNG. For Shooter, Clipping recorded themselves firing fifteen different guns, the sounds of which exclusively constituted the beats drums, augmented only by a synthesized tone-row. The verses referenced the well-worn technique of hashtag rap, but instead of using it to boast about the rappers personal wealth and masculine prowess, Clipping put forth imagistic narratives of three violent encounters. True to much of the groups music, Shooter was an attempt to reframe a familiar style and test the limits of its formal capabilities.

Hot Fuck No Love contains what might be the most explicit verse to date from Clippings favorite New Jersey rapper Cakes Da Killa. The EPs title track, Wriggle, was built around a sample of the influential power-electronics song Wriggle Like a Fucking Eel by Whitehouse, transforming William Bennetts torturous imperative into a instructional dance-floor banger. Wriggle and Shooter have become classic Clipping tracks and staples of their live show.