The Wire cover stars Clipping have teamed up with Shabazz Palaces on “Aquacode Databreaks”, a track originally commissioned for a 2017 episode of This American Life. It’s now included on Clipping's new three track record The Deep, a dark science fiction story about the water breathing descendants of an African woman thrown overboard from a slave ship crossing the Atlantic, inspired by an Afrofuturist myth developed by Detroit’s Drexciya on their 1997 album The Quest.

The Deep is released on Sub Pop on 29 November. Watch “Aquacode Databreaks” below. Read about Clipping in The Wire 430 December issue.