![]() ![]() At worst, it’s clumsy and underfed, a reminder that all of that ornamentation served a purpose. At best, it is a rough sketch for a great album, with ideas he would have typically rendered with complexity, here distilled to a few words, a few synthesizer notes, a lean drumbeat. ![]() “808s & Heartbreak” sounds like none of his other albums, nor any rap album of note “minimal but functional” is how he has described it to MTV. And so, as he’s dismantling his storytelling structures, he’s also making his productions skeletal, and largely trading bombastic rapping for vulnerable singing. West’s earlier albums, he would have quickly undermined this sentiment of course a shopping spree would cheer him up but here, bluntness is the goal. On “Pinocchio Story” he continues his lament: The product of a tumultuous year in his personal life, it operates solely on the level of catharsis no commentary, no self-consciousness, no concern for anything but feeling.
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