Great fucking album. Most of the tracks from the EPs have been beefed up or changed and are way better than before, and the 5 new "Phantom" tracks are possibly the five best tracks on the whole thing.
Loving the shoegaze/early M83 types of sounds in a lot of places on the album.
1. "I was a huge fan back around the time Archetype came out." In response to Reply # 0
I struggled to get through a few of those eps. And I'm not too interested in this album, honestly. How the fuck does it take him 11 years to put out a project? How many have CL put out in that same time frame? And let's not even get into the Chico & The Man fiasco...
Know what? Fuck it, i'll check it out.
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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."
2. "Honestly, I'm a huge fan and I didn't love everything on the EPs, but" In response to Reply # 1
He took away pretty much everything I wasn't feeling from the EPs for the album. And like I said first post...the five new songs are arguably the best five songs on the album. I think its damn near a perfect album.
I'm looking forward to listening again today while following along with the lyrics.
Tone is always amazing lyrically. I really can't think of another mc that does the technical stuff better. On top of that he can be very poetic.
His production is also crazy on here. Really impressive stuff.
If you buy the album there's a personal note he wrote that explains all the stuff he was going through that made the album take so long. Makes me like it even more, being able to relate in part.
10. "Finally listened to it. Lyrics are great, beats are not very good at all" In response to Reply # 0
As always dude is great at putting his verses together and can flow his ass off. High degree of skill. But man, the souless synthy beats get really old relly quick. And starting the album with that five-minute intro was not a smart decision.
14. "Here's the official remix album, if you weren't feeling the beats" In response to Reply # 10
>As always dude is great at putting his verses together and >can flow his ass off. High degree of skill. But man, the >souless synthy beats get really old relly quick. And starting >the album with that five-minute intro was not a smart >decision.