this is so pretentious i can't even finish a single track.
i'd venture that this album is going to be a real chore even for somebody less jaded than me.

whoever told this dude he was doing something with 4 note piano melodies extended into "epicness" via arrangement needs to be put down.

the thing that ye completely doesn't get is that regardless of how grandiose you try to make the production on something sound with effects and arrangement - the fact your music has the skill level and sophistication of a 8 year old who has taken 2 weeks of piano lessons is not going to be overlooked.
it CAN'T be overlooked because you fucking work off repeating "loops" that have no change - so we hear it for the entire 4 minutes.
...loops that contain playing of simple melodies in the simplest possible phrasing with a whole slew of fx/arrangement added.
like you might be able to fool pitchfork because they only judge music based on "style" so i'm sure if mbdtf was a 10/10 then this is like a 27/10 to them.
but this shit is dud-city to me.
ye has been firing duds since 2008 imo.
the one positive is at least he shortened down the arrangements...
the bad thing is that the songs still FEEL 9 minutes long because the music and playing is so redundant.
black music is so dull.
i mean it's real simple: these dudes drank their own koolaid in the late 00's and now they think they're incredible artists because they are so rich and adorned with attention - but you put them down at the keys and they couldn't even play twinkle, twinkle little star without doing 19 takes.
this is where black MUSIC is at, people.
eventually it comes to the surface even if you don't realize "what" exactly it is you don't like.
smoke and mirrors.
david copperfield rap.
infact, the "epicness" on this makes the backing music sound like something he would use as background music for one of his specials in the 80s.
just my take. i loved graduation, liked college dropout, was indifferent to everything else he did solo.