| i just want to weigh in here - i love this album!
i don't love it BECAUSE it's "different" but i love it's differentness, if that makes any sense? i love the vibe of it, i love that it's blatantly a heart-on-his-sleeve breakup album, i love the fusion of r&b and, like autechre or nin or whoever it is he's channeling here... i admit not all the lyrics are as good as some of the stuff on, say, college dropout, but i dig the honesty and emotion of it anyway...
i knew the moment i heard it that there were gonna be some VERY mixed reactions to it tho. it's obviously not gonna please everybody, some people are gonna hate it, some people are gonna like it less than his previous work (and tbh i like several of his albums better, but then he's set a very high bar for himself hasn't he?) but still i think it's an excellent album. also i notice it's charting pretty high, which obviously isn't the best/only measure of goodness, but i thinks it speaks well for something as edgy and weird as this album if it still manages to have a broad appeal like that.
finally, i'll just add that i haven't broken up with anyone in a while, but if i'd just just got dumped by my girl back in high school or something, i'd probably be bumpin this like, 24/7 lol |