KIDS SEE GHOSTS

2018, Jun 8

Apple Spotify Pop Rap Experimental Hip Hop 99 Highly Rated Getting Out Our Dreams, Inc./Def Jam Recordings Hiphopheads 14k+ Pitchfork 7.6/10 A.V. Club C The Needle Drop 10/10 The Line of Best Fit 9/10 NME 4/5 Rolling Stone 3/5 All Music 4.5/5 Exclaim! 9/10 Pop Matters 9/10 The Guardian 4/5 Spectrum Culture 75% music OMH 3.5/5

Pitchfork 7.6/10 On Kids See Ghosts, the mess at least feels more purposeful, and the songs are the most intriguing ones to emerge from this Wyoming project thus far.

A.V. Club C Cudi is, without qualification, the spiritual and artistic backbone of Kids See Ghosts, the source of its truest artistic risks and the instrument of its greatest triumphs.

The Needle Drop 10/10 KIDS SEE GHOSTS finds both Kanye West and Kid Cudi in top form as they host a psychedelic odyssey through the darkest and brightest corners of their psyches.

The Line of Best Fit 9/10 With a great collaborator at his side and an audibly more measured compositional approach, the third in Kanye West’s seven-track album trilogy is the finest yet.

NME 4/5 This is the sound of Kanye and Cudi catching up with themselves.

Rolling Stone 3/5 If Ye and Kids See Ghost are partially responses to bleeding-edge, teenager-approved modern rap music, it's pretty brave and fairly smart ... But the result feels more like when the Rolling Stones, Elton John or Robert Plant would make New Wave records in the early Eighties – it's cool, catchy, contemporary, but not exactly why we're here.

All Music 4.5/5 Kids See Ghosts is everything Ye wasn't, delivering a worthwhile listen in spite of the extended PR disaster that preceded its release. With Cudi as the yang to West's yin, the pair inch closer to finding peace and a light in the darkness.

Pop Matters 9/10 I think it is safe at this point to say that Kids See Ghosts will be remembered as the climax and most enduring record of Ye Season, one that keeps giving with each and every replay.

The Guardian 4/5 Kids See Ghosts will go down as a minor release in West’s canon, and this oddball odyssey to Wyoming won’t be remembered as one of his best eras. Yet the album does something he needed. It reasserts him as a fun, thrilling rap music-maker that tests the genre’s boundaries.

Spectrum Culture 75% The album confirms West’s talent as a producer, but it doesn’t tell us anything new about him. However, it tells us a great deal about Kid Cudi, marking a kind of renaissance for an artist whose credit is still due.