Over at The Oakland Press official website, they have a positive review of the new ICP album The Mighty Death Pop. They gave it  3 Starts, here’s the article:

Published: Monday, August 13, 2012

By GARY GRAFF
For Journal Register Newspapers
[email protected]; Twitter: @graffonmusic

RAP: Insane Clown Posse

“The Mighty Death Pop!”

Psychopathic Records

3 Stars

Attention Juggalos and all others; Insane Clown Posse cares about you. Really. And not necessarily just because you might buy albums, T-shirts and videos. The second installment of the Detroit duo’s second series of Joker’s Card albums is an hour-long rumination on mortality and the randomness of death — and a need to appreciate life in the face of that. “Live life like a train wreck and you’re next,” Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope caution in the title track, adding that “You’ll be shocked when your clock stops and your mighty death pops.” This is still an ICP album, of course, so there’s an abundance of profanity and a body count that Slim Shady would envy as the duo catalogs all sorts of sudden-death opportunities, from skits about misguided thrill-seekers and homicidal airplane pilots to songs about psycho killers (“Night of the Chainsaw,” “Chris Benoit”) and unhinged victims of bullying (“The Blasta,” an ICP equivalent of Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy”). The group asks some blunt questions in “Where’s God?”; offs Chris Brown in “Shooting Stars”; and warns in “Ghetto Rainbows” about the potentially fatal mistake of taking your eyes off the street in the inner city. There’s a bit of lightness in the Faygo-promoting “Juggalo Juice,” while “Forever” chronicles the rewards of living a “good” life. The 17 tracks (plus an unlisted bonus cut) also continue ICP’s growing musical sophistication, as the two MCs get even more inventive with their flow and producer Mike E. Clark builds a flowing bed of eclectic soundscapes that range from the slinky rock guitar hook and Parliament-Funkadelic swagger of the title track to the sinister, vibey ambiance of “Hate Her to Death” and “Ghetto Rainbows” and the whistling pop smoothness of “Forever.” “The Mighty Death Pop!” has three packages with some intriguing bonus CDs — of which the “Red Pop” covers set “Smothered, Covered, and Chunked!” is the best — but the main album is the story here, gritty, provocative and, ultimately, redemptive, showing maturity but with enough explicit carnage to maintain ICP’s snotty cool.

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