A brooding, dulcet elegy of quivering emotion without a single spoken couplet, it painstakingly arches from sub-bass ‘pooms’ to tribal fills over five minutes of melancholic digital-warped crooning. Lead single ‘Love Lockdown’ was a scare for many Kanye-watchers. ![]() The latter however, is what he’s gone and done (yup, every track).Īs the title foretells, there are two themes powering the college drop-out’s fourth full-length studio album: ’80s tech-nostalgia (the Roland TR-808 is the iconic, tinny drum machine that drove proto-hip hop), and erm, being well sad. Although one might argue it’s just as perplexing for him to take epiphany-type inspiration from a track by British cod-hop also-rans Mr Hudson And The Library (the forthcoming ‘There Will Be Tears’), decide to quit rapping, and record an 11-track album entirely sung through vocoder-esque auto-tune. It’d be odd then, for him to follow this with, say, a reggae-themed party album. ![]() Then a split from fiancée Alexis sent him into something of an early-30s meltdown. ![]() ![]() His ma, Donda, with whom he vocally shared an inseparable bond, passed away late last year.
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