{"id":7643,"date":"2013-09-10T13:59:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T13:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=7643"},"modified":"2013-09-10T13:59:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T13:59:13","slug":"kanye-west-yeezus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/09\/10\/kanye-west-yeezus\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West – Yeezus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At the time of this writing, much has already been said of Kanye West\u2019s sixth studio album, Yeezus<\/em>. Critics marveled at its \u201cdark and sonically experimental\u201d presentation. Writers celebrated its \u201cminimalist\u201d aesthetic and nods to early-00s Southern trap and mid-80s Chicago acid house. Some even construed its songwriting as social commentary while admiring West\u2019s narcissism as a sort of ironic self-reflexivity.<\/p>\n

Whatever the interpretation, Yeezus<\/em> is Kanye\u2019s sixth studio album, the follow-up to 2010\u2019s critically polarizing My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy<\/em>, and the third in a string of highly ambitious releases dating back to 808s & Heartbreak<\/em> in 2008. More than a dozen collaborators including Mike Dean, Daft Punk and Justin Vernon worked on Yeezus, making it a true \u201cproducer\u2019s record.\u201d Behind Kanye\u2019s (still) uninspired raps are unusual samples blended with retro synths and a host of musical themes, new and old, throughout. As hip hop records go, you won\u2019t hear another like this all year.<\/p>\n

Unlike Kanye\u2019s lyrics\u2013which shift from painfully specious anti-capitalist jabbering to vacuous claims of holiness\u2013the album carries a consistently aggressive tone. On \u201cBlood on the Leaves,\u201d Kanye distressingly illustrates a collapsing marriage, while on \u201cNew Slaves\u201d he posits a fierce polemic of inequality in America. Yeezus will dazzle some with its eccentric production and Kanye\u2019s idiotic yet provocative hubris. For others, it\u2019s discordant chaos of sounds and themes might cause one to wonder what the man is trying to say in the first place. (Roc-A-Fella\/Def Jam, kanyewest.com<\/a>) Harrison Samphir<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the time of this writing, much has already been said of Kanye West\u2019s sixth studio album, Yeezus. Critics marveled at its \u201cdark and sonically experimental\u201d presentation. Writers celebrated its \u201cminimalist\u201d aesthetic and nods to early-00s Southern trap and mid-80s Chicago acid house. Some even construed its songwriting as social commentary while admiring West\u2019s narcissism […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[511,605,1129],"class_list":["post-7643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-kanye","tag-mental-notes","tag-yeezus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}