Album Rating: 4.0

i think its by far his most ambient and chill easy-listening album and that is something in itself



there's some shit i wish he would have just left off completely but for the most part i stand by that opinion



i think its a pretty fitting release and sound for/in 2016, and suitable follow up to the noisey aggressive abrasive yeezus

Album Rating: 4.0

i has more melody than yeezus but yeezus is a thousand times better. pt 2, feedback, low lights, freestyle, no more parties, facts, and fade are all w/e. the first 4 in particular are just straight up boring as hell and nobody would have bated an eye if they were released by anybody else. ultralight beam is nice and all but pretty damn boring until chance's verse. even the best songs on here are sort of weak. waves is great for like a minute and a half and then he just completely foregoes that awesome chorus and the song peters out. wolves' gorgeous vocal sample is strained and annoying at the halfway point and the frank ocean ending is just way too minimalistic to really affect me, no more parties is the most overrated song of 2016 by a mile, and so on. i still think there's great material here but the 4.5s and 5s are ridic

Album Rating: 4.0

and there's no consistency to the album. people are saying he should release a mixtape: this is pretty much it. the production is fucked on some songs and ace on others, the songs have no unified theme or atmosphere, etc

Album Rating: 4.0

high5, arcade



yeezus is a masterpiece. i think he should have taken way more time with this album. freestyle 4 sounds like a rejected yeezus cut, ultrabeam light sounds like a minimalistic cut from mbdtf. they all just sound like rough drafts - songs that should be blueprints for his masterpieces to come... except this proceeds them

Album Rating: 4.0

*puke*

Album Rating: 4.0

literally 1000x, i did the math

Album Rating: 2.0

lame

Album Rating: 4.0

i liked yeezus i just like the sound on this more, but stop trying to be controversial for the sake of attention on the internet by saying stupid shit like its 1000x better than his last album, you sound like morons

Album Rating: 4.0

"there's just so much of this that ranges from well-written and unique to tragic and half-finished. the fact that nothing coalesces into anything meaningful should be reason enough to rank this towards the bottom of Kanye's discography."



see you in 4 months with a "this grew on me" comment

Album Rating: 2.0

yeezus was terrible, this aint much better

Album Rating: 4.0

idk man, what do you see in this? lol. there are so many throwaway tracks here.



even kanye himself pulled it from shelves to work on it more, and i think he's 100% justified in doing so. don't get me wrong, some of the tracks here are pure fire. real friends and 30 are two of the best songs i've heard so far this year, but nothing else comes remotely close to those.



i enjoy kanye a lot - even the grossly underrated graduation and 808s, but this album is a disaster

Album Rating: 4.0

if youre suggesting i have even visited pitchfork at any point in the last 4 years you are mistaken



i form my own opinions (which is why i may be mistaken by the consensus here, frankly i couldnt care less)

Album Rating: 4.0

guitared you seem unfamiliar with the concept of exaggeration to make a point. obviously i wasn't put out a finite fucking number, just emphasizing how much better yeezus is than this (which is a lot, to be sure). yeezus isn't for everyone but it was a beast of an album. a perfect 10-track length with a solid direction and unique atmosphere permeating the whole thing.



this is an unfinished mess

Album Rating: 4.0

not reading pitchfork isn't going to up your sputnik cred, i hate to tell you. pitchfork's review for this was excellent but at this point it almost feels obligatory for them to bnm a kanye album no matter what

Album Rating: 4.0

"idk man, what do you see in this? "



the laid back ambient style is generally my favorite style of hiphop, i grew up listening to traditional west coast, im naturally going to prefer an album like this than an album forcefully alternative in sound and influenced by modern trends (im referring here to the clear dg / noise hip hop influence on yeezus)



that being said, i think the sound on each of mbdtf, yeezus, and tlop well reflect the time they were released, which is often why you find people coming back to them and saying it grew on them

Album Rating: 4.0

kid i couldnt give less of a fuck about "sputnik cred" lmfao

Album Rating: 4.0

"if he cut the huge amount of trash, restructured the tracklist"



i dont super disagree with this opinion as i mentioned however again i stand by the sound for the most part being fairly consistent



he seems somewhat less focused on music in 2016 which is too bad, lets put a hit on KK (bad tasted joke obvi)

Album Rating: 4.0

this doesn't reflect any period at all though dude - even pitchfork, with all their ardent praises for this, acknowledged that. this is just a kanye mixtape whose songs sound like they were put into a blender with yeezus, mbdtf, and 808s.



there is absolutely no structure whatsoever. it goes from gritty messes of songs to smooth melodic spaced out tunes and back again. it's all over the place; there's no flow at all. you could essentially listen to this in any order you like and still get the same effect.



i have to strongly second what arcade said. if this were cut down to 10 tracks, with some of them being heavily reworked, this could be an excellent album

Album Rating: 4.0

"kid i couldnt give less of a fuck about "sputnik cred" lmfao"



evidently you do, since you identify with sputnik and its community enough to arbitrarily bash pitchfork in an attempt to make yourself look more individualistic

Album Rating: 4.0

that is your interpretation of it since you are clearly actually super concerned about sputnik cred however i could give a fuck and was talking to arcade not you



it doesnt matter if you read pitchfork or not either my point was i dont therefore cannot base my opinions on what they have to say