Two days ago, Kanye West’s newest album “Yeezus” was officially released and will certainly turn heads! I’ve been giving it a few spins and am blown away by the vast energy and power that some of his new songs express. Like Ye mentioned in some of his interviews leading up to the release, the album has a pretty minimalistic yet extremely aggressive sound in comparison to his former releases.
I actually
think that his new sound exemplifies pretty well why Kanye West is looked at as
one of the leading cultural personas in modern Pop culture: He is able to
reinvent himself without loosing his core sound and style.
Instead of
going the easy way by giving the people an EDM inspired Dance album, he created
a complicated and bulky album that caters to those who actually take the time
to decipher lyrics, samples and his ideas. There is no real single on the album
that has the potential to please a mass audience, but tracks like “Black
Skinhead”, “New Slaves” or “Bound 2“ are amazing examples of creativity and art.
Since he
told the press that he visited Rick Rubin only 2 weeks before his deadline and
many of the songs were still only pieces and ideas, I think that in some parts
you can definitely hear that it was put together in somewhat of a rush. Some ideas
just don’t really help the structure or vibe of some songs, like in “” when the
sudden Autotune chanting somewhat destroys the song’s intensity without
providing any real antithetic emotions.
Nevertheless,
I think that the album marks another
milestone in West’s 10-year long career that has certainly had its ups and
downs, but never disappointed in terms of creativity. His music has always been the center of his many facets as a designer, artist and public persona and I think that the collaborators on this album such as demi-gods Daft Punk and Rick Rubin prove that he is a well respected musician. Therefore this album does not need any labels such as industrial rock rap or electronic dance rap, it's simply good music!
Favorite songs: Black Skinhead, On Sight, Blood on the Leaves, Bound 2, New Slaves and I Am A God
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