Kanye West's new 2018 album

This is what we deserve, honestly.

30 hours of that would be an improvement over tlop

All these speakers and farm animals make me think that this album is going to be heavily influenced by the KLF.

I hope the fire is for sacrificing Candace Owens.

Uh. UH.

Big excitement: Mic check

"Check 1, check 2. Not even sure who I'm checking this for. Check 1, check 2. ... feeding back like a motherfucker there. "

Chris Rock introducing it. Big crowd around a campfire. Rock says that the new Kanye opus is titled Ye'.

Not too sure about this. I really like the spastic raw qualities of Yeezus and Pablo. This is more reigned in. Lyrically it feels like a post mid-life crisis album, as though Kanye is trying to write his happy ending.

Oh my god, this awful guitar solo thing "I've been trying to make you love me but everything I try just takes you farther from me"

No. Not feeling this at all.

Last song is the best one. They're starting the album over on the livestream.

is there a free live stream for desktops? i'm not buying an app on my phone to hear this

Don't think so. I tried downloading app through desktop and it said it was an IOS thing. But i'm not very tech savvy.

Liking the second listen better. Still feels like a step backwards.

is poopity scoop on the album?

If it's coming out tonight on streaming services I'd rather listen there, it'd be so much more convenient. I bloody hope a real version of poopity scoop is on it!

midnight MDT / 3AM EST?

No poopity scoop. No blatant MAGA shit. Not as horrible as I was afraid it could be. Sort of sad, it's the first album where it feels as though his edge is lost.

the title seems very mid-life crisis MOR to me

How long is it? 20 min like the Pusha t?

wasn't clocking it, but it's short. Guessing under thirty minutes. The last song is the best one, so right when it feels like things might be getting better it's over.

I find the thought of getting flown in a plane to Wyoming for the purpose of kissing the ass of an apologist for an authoritarian as repulsive and embarrassing as any story I've read since 2016. And for what? To rehearse "provocative" and "controversial" again?

What if you were flown in a catapult?

Alf OTM

It's on Spotify and stuff now. And, uh.

The last few tracks kinda hint at a decent midlife crisis record, but the opening tracks emphasize the "crisis" half of that equation and it never really recovers

this album sucks

This guy has been trolling for years but in the past he had some pretty great shit to back it up.

Album feels desperate because it is.

man, the discussion about kanye's mental health has been so utterly shit that he made his cover art a response to it

Kanye is a key interlocutor in this utterly shit discussion. He conflates mental health issues and 'genius' on very a basic level, just for the sake of his own mythology. It's gross really.

surprised FourFiveSeconds is both his and Macca's #1 Spotify track - and quite high (#3 I think) for Rihanna too

Kendrick, very obviously so, a much better example at how a hip-hop artist can use words to really express the horrors of mental health issues.

this first song is the worst shit i've ever heard

This is good

lmao

This is good

sucks

First song is by far the best though, kinda drops off

bruh

lmao

guys its a NEW JERSEY

so is he going to re-edit this post-release like TLOP and make a couple of these sketches into actual songs or

there are some cool things on this but none of them involve Kanye talking or rapping

It's not a good sign when the most interesting things about an album might be the work done by Francis and the Lights.

sucks

― flopson, Friday, June 1, 2018 10:53 AM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh wow this is bad...
Interesting move to put ALL his good material on Pusha T’s album !

What happened to his production on this and TLOP it feels rough and sounds frankly terrible on headphones. As an aesthetic choice it sounds sloppy as fuck.

This « album » sounds like someone who doesn’t give a flying f anymore...

xp the left channel clipping on violent crimes is very annoying

he'll probably fix it

missing whoop diddy scoop poop already

when more realized songs start happening in the back half it feels like relief at first, like the record is cohering

but that feeling doesn't last long because it turns out the first few songs are the point and everything else is just packaging

"lift yourself" in retrospect feels like one of those movie trailers that gives away the entire plot ahead of time

don't hate this honestly. well, except for the first track, which is one of the worst songs i've ever heard. I probably like 3.5 tracks (no mistakes, violent crimes, all mine, and the 070 shake parts of ghost town), but there's no question that this is the worst Kanye album and it's the first one where there isn't a new idea that he's exploring. TLOP was a much more revealing look into his mind, yeezus did the whole brevity thing a lot more effectively...what is new about this record?