Yeezus
Marking a blunt break with the filigreed maximalism he nailed on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye's sixth solo album trades smooth soul and anthemic choruses for jarring electro, acid house, and industrial grind while delivering some of his most lewd and heart-crushing tales yet.
Artists often describe their albums as labors of love, but Kanye West’s records have been labors of labor, the fruits of endless studio sessions spent tweaking each sample and fine-tuning every drum hit for maximum effect. At the height of his perfectionism in 2010, West claimed to invest more than 5,000 hours into…
Inspired in parts, embarrassingly blunt in others, Yeezus perfectly represents the puzzling dualities of Yeezy.
The low-point on Yeezus, Kanye West's sixth album, is "I Am A God," a rhythmically rote electro-buzz that inflates Kanye's…
Already this year's most talked-about album, Kanye West's Yeezus came with a rash of promises and boasts from the rapper – as usual, he was going to completely redefine music with his latest offering, and much time was spent discussing how revolutionary the bitcrushed, stripped-down beats would sound.
Clash reviews 'Yeezus', the sixth studio album from US rapper and producer Kanye West
Behind the curtain, a very rich and talented man is grasping hard for something new to say.
If all those summers in the late '90s wasted away in front of a television airing Saturday Night Live reruns from the mid-'90s taught me anything, it was...
<p>Harsh rhythms crash, dance beats drop out, soul samples grate, voices are warped beyond recognition. Is West's dementedly contrary album the sound of a music star just doing his job?</p>