808s & Heartbreak
Since his triumphant 2004 debut The College Dropout, Kanye West has been plying the same winning formula to steadily diminishing returns. That certainly can't be said of his frustrating, fascinating fourth solo album, 808s & Heartbreak, a radical departure that abandons much of what West does best—hyper-soulful…
<p>Introspection, techno and Eighties ballads: meet the revitalised rapper, says Gareth Grundy</p>
There must have been a moment when Kanye West was actually content with being the most potent and essential personality in hip-hop.
Kanye West’s first three albums, all with education-themed titles, have been cemented as a true trilogy, not just a nominal one, by the release of his...
<p>It is the stylised, minimal music that lends the album its power, and which helps West convince as a man beset by demons and femmes fatales</p>
Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreak review: Everyone, I'd like you to meet the emotionally fragile and digitally enhanced Kanye West.