6/7/2011, imma drop that body work / fuck my brains out double single (TERIUS NASH aka THE-DREAM, LOVE IV: anticipation and adoration)

What singles are available now, and what's worth buying?

Don't say "High Art"

Did he really need a song named "Pussy"?

3. Equestrain
4. Pussy (Feat. Big Sean & Pusha T)

read this as "Pussytrain" at first

looool @ "Tron" being on the album

everything below "outro" i'm thinkin is an itunes deluxe edition track

there are samples on itunes, it sounds p bad :/

too early sample sounds nice

haven't listened to samples yet but have not dug anything off this except "slow it down" (a nice throwback to los' cotton-candy) and "IV play" (terius indulging in maximalism)...

^like this guy

lots of these snippets are v v promising imo, schlumps a h8r

lol 'outro' is basically a weeknd diss

rly hopin theres a sweet transition in "lovin you / crazy"

ha I am really not a hater, i am an opteriusist, it's just everything sounds post-l.o.s thin, autotuned to the point of obscuring t's voice & just sorta weirdly aimless/slight/slightly misguided like high art so far imo. I am still googling DREAM THE-DREAM FOURPLAY VINYL everyday I am just sorta suspecting/accepting that this is not the lush love king sequel I am desiring. I have spent a long while recently bugged by the easy, consequence free cynicism of low pop culture expectations ('oh this is going to be a trainwreck') so I seriously have no pleasure hating on it, just I listened through today & it all sounded p blank.

yeah, totally agree with schlump. snippets sound p dire

sorry equesTRAIN might've been a typo...

i am a bit worried that the Beyonce and Kelly Rowland features will be nowhere as good as the tracks that Terius has done for each of their upcoming albums... or i guess i shouldn't be worried, and come to terms with the fact that since Love King i've more often enjoyed his productions for other artists than the stuff he does for himself...

Finishing up my first listen of this, and it sounds really good. Nice rebound from 1977. Nothing as grand and grabbing as his first two records, of course, but he's testing enough new ideas that it doesn't feel like a lesser redux of them, either—I'm struck but how many of these tracks don't song immediately identifiable as Dream songs.

You have the album?

A stream, yeah

ohhhhhhhhh - just glad to know it exists at this point

Ha, I have a system I use for gauging whether rap/R&B albums are real when I pitch reviews or plan coverage. It's a scale, beginning with "hmmm, this might not really exist" and ending with "huh, I'll be damned":

Release date
Cover art
Tracklist announcement
Snippets
Leak

lol

So I don't know if it was lowered expectations or what, but I'm liking this a lot. I'm enjoying the guests, the energy, the pacing, all of it really.

Is this at least on par with Love King? I'll be happy if it is.

Yes and no. It doesn't hit woozy highs like Love King, but I don't think it misfires as badly, or repeats itself as much. I'd much rather listen to this than Love King right now.

i wasn't a huge fan of Love King but i'd be pretty shocked if this had anything as good as "Yamaha" or "F.I.L.A."

yeah.

I'd be surprised if any lyric is as good as "so she let me do her"

"where have you been" -> "too early" -> "michael" is the one great stretch on this album i think

is this out there?

not that i know of

I think the whole album is one great stretch, tbh, but "Too Early" is particularly incredible

idk i think there's a handful of tracks on this that are kinda worthless

There's some fluff in the final third, but it's mostly likable fluff, so I don't mind

his albums always start off kinda slow but "high art", "pussy" and "turnt" are 360 dunked into the recycle bin

http://hasitleaked.com/2013/the-dream-iv-play/

big chunk of the record uploaded a couple hours ago, enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheDreamVEVO

KAT as first venue for webrip leak says a lot about Terius fan base...
Can't wait til I can get 320.
Is there even a place where I can officially buy IVPlay in 320? Only online option iTunes?

Dipping in and out of album cut on YouTube, waiting to be wowed

Ok "Turnt Up" has its charms

Lol at "Michael"! Perfect, the Dream is....back? A+

This is like the perfect start to my day - it the Lonely Island tracks I'm about to spin are dope I should buy a lotto ticket

front third of this is sort of a mess

― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Tuesday, May 21, 2013 9:43 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

does anyone who had already heard this have the production credits?

― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Tuesday, May 21, 2013 9:44 AM (2 minutes ago)

All Nash everything except:

Equestrian (Nash/McKinney)
Where Have You Been (Nash/Da Internz/Miykal Snoddy)
Self-Conscious (Nash/McKinney)
Holy Love (Nash/McKinney)

3 los tracks! somebody grab k3vin a towel.

andy k, thumbs up, thumbs down?

way too much of the stuff i hated about "love king" here -- aimless half-sung ballads, lower-register mumblecore -- and too little of the bright, hooky stuff that makes him good.

i don't know how anyone could end the album with "slow it down" and not think it's the most enjoyable thing here

Either neither or down.

Certainly not up.

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way too much of the stuff i hated about "love king" here -- aimless half-sung ballads, lower-register mumblecore -- and too little of the bright, hooky stuff that makes him good.

It's true that there's not a lot of the bright, hooky stuff, but I think the storyline here is that he's getting better at the other sounds. He's trying a lot of new things on this record, and a lot of them work really well. I like that he's trying to advance his sound instead of just relive past glories.

the song with kelly sounded good on the tonight show last night. or at least she sounded good.

Who is McKinney?

Not... CYNTHIA McKinney?!? Lol

kevin's being a bit fatalistic

there's some stuff on here that's not very good but "IV play"/"equestrian"/"where have you been"/"too early"/"michael" stand up with mostly anything off his three other albums

i need to listen more to everything else after michael tho