Yeezus

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West also met with architect Joseph Dirand and Belgian interior designer Axel Vervoordt, and had "rare Le Corbusier lamps, Pierre Jeanneret chairs and obscure body-art journals from Switzerland" delivered to the loft. Randall Roberts of the Los Angeles Times felt it was his most ambitious piece of music yet, [78] and Evan Rytlewski from The A. Public reaction to Yeezus, including its unorthodox and deliberate lack of promotion as well as its brash and aggressive sound, was mixed. New Slaves” is basic on the production side, mainly relying on a soft bassline until a scrambled mack truck of a synth drives through on the song’s especially aggressive conclusion.

Blood on the Leaves", which samples Nina Simone's 1965 rendition of " Strange Fruit" and was the first track in the first incarnation of the track list, is an example of West's signature dichotomy in which he melds the sacred and profane. West was influenced primarily by minimalist design and architecture during the production of Yeezus, and visited a furniture exhibit in the Louvre five times.Kanye claims to be wiser than he’s ever been, meaning those in the wrong should probably watch their backs. Hart, performed by Capleton; and samples of "Are Zindagi Hai Khel", written by Anand Bakshi and Rahul Burman, performed by Burman, Manna Dey and Asha Bhosle. West went on to make the claim in October 2015 that despite many people rating My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy as his best album, Yeezus is "so much stronger" in comparison. Yeezus is primarily electronic in nature, and boasts distorted drum machines and synthesizers that sound like they're malfunctioning, low-resolution samplers that add a pixelated digital aura to the most analog sounds.

They're variously shocking, funny, thought-provoking, nonsensical, contradictory and occasionally reprehensible: the only consistent thing about them is how inconsistent they are.This doesn’t make the album any more listenable, and, as always, Kanye planned this, saying “My last album was a protest to music… The album don’t even got no music”. For most pop stars, including those deemed geniuses, a few weeks to create an album start to finish is hopeless. Those last-minute edits registered as the neurosis of a perfectionist—annoying, definitely, but at least a sign of care.