Pitchfork new 10.0

Not that far off, really. It's easily the AOTY.

Is it just me or does MBDTF sound poorly mastered? I'm no recording engineer, but it seems like this thing was recorded in the red...maybe it was the coke

Yea it's clipped to hell. Apparently it was mastered by vlado. the album is brilliant though. I've listened through this album a good 9 or 10 times already.

Bought the album today and oh boy, I definitely agree with that score. This is an amazing album.

 

Love him or hate him, Kanye makes good music.

no. 

Makes so much more sense now..

 

I was wondering why the last track from Bon Iver's Blood Bank EP was five minutes of autotune.  It was for Kayne!

Downloaded it Tuesday when Amazon was offering it for $3.99. Granted Amazon MP3 downloads leave a lot to be desired, but I find this nearly unlistenable on headphones. I thought maybe there was something wrong with the Amazon rip, but the iTunes samples sound more or less the same.

 

Sounds much better in the car, which is where I generally do most of my hip-hop listening anyway.

Sonic imperfections aside, I can't for the life of me figure out why so many critics are branding this Album of the Year.  To me, it's maybe a 6 or 7 out of 10. In a worse mood, I'd give it a 5. It's adolescent and crude, and lacks the infectious hooks and smart, memorable turns-of-phrase I had come to expect from Kanye after College Dropout and Late Registration. 

 

Maybe I'm just spoiled by Girl Talk's All Day, but I can't help but think that music critics got together on some sort of under the radar tweet up and decided to brand this disappointing diatribe AOTY just for grins. Either that, or Kanye and his label pinpointed the 10 most influential critics and agreed to payoff their underwater mortgages in exchange for rave reviews.

But All Day is mediocre at best.

Pretty terrible album with piss-poor mastering. Disappointing release.

What's that?  All Day or Dark Twisted Fantasy?

 

 

Personally I don't know where anybody gets off saying anything is 10 out of 10.

After the big reviews, I streamed a bit of it.

Seemed loaded with clichés to me. Didn't hear anything new musically, it seemed pretty derivative.

If anything, it reminded me of a middle-aged guy desperately trying to relevant to high-schoolers. Are we really supposed to have empathy for a spoiled, hypersensitive twit, anyway?

There hasn't been any good hiphop since 1994 or so. 

My thoughts on the album and Kanye in general: oi;ahwguio4h3wtuih8423whtf89ih23wntfiob