A few months before leaving this planet forever, in the final public act of his life, Lou Reed wrote some nice words about Kanye West's Yeezus: "He keeps unbalancing you. He'll pile on all this sound and then suddenly pull it away, all the way to complete silence, and then there's a scream or a beautiful melody, right there in your face. That's what I call a sucker punch." Reed knew more than most about sucker punches, and there's something cosmically appropriate about that final salute: One mercurial troublemaker saluting another on his way out the door.
02. Deafheaven - Sunbather (Deathwish)
03. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City (XL)
04. Disclosure - Settle (Cherrytree)
05. My Bloody Valentine - m b v (Self-released)
06. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time (Capitol)
07. Danny Brown - Old (Fool's Gold)
08. HAIM - Days Are Gone (Polydor)
09. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (Columbia)
10. Arcade Fire - Reflektor (Merge)
Other notable entries:
18. Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap (Self-released)
20. Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe (Domino)
25. Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks (Polydor)
26. Migos - YRN (Self-released)
28. Drake - Nothing Was The Same (Cash Money)
41. Janelle Monáe - The Electric Lady (Wondaland/Bad Boy)
49. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience Pt. 1 (RCA)
43. Cassie - RockaByeBaby (Bad Boy)
Cassie certainly doesn't have the best voice in circa-2013 R&B, but she might have the coolest one: An icily direct and eerily composed sing-speak that carries volumes of insinuation with every precise enunciation. And on her mixtape RockaByeBaby, her first full-length in seven years, she knows just how to use that voice, hovering above gleaming electro-blips or snaking its way through tinkly minimal club music. RockaByeBaby has A-list guests -- Rick Ross, Wiz Khalifa, Meek Mill -- but they all disappear completely into Cassie's chilly house-of-mirrors style. "I make music to numb your brain," Cassie purrs on "Numb," and she succeeds like no R&B singer since Aaliyah.
It's freaking garbage man.. Kanye lyrically isn't doing a thing for me. Top notch production? Sure. But the lyrical content is just not there. JMO though, and this is coming from a huge kanye fan.
Ya'll only like those raps more because of the content but Kanye was more of a poet back in those days, almost spoken word with a decent flow. He made it work ofc.
It's freaking garbage man.. Kanye lyrically isn't doing a thing for me. Top notch production? Sure. But the lyrical content is just not there. JMO though, and this is coming from a huge kanye fan.
The main focus of the album is not lyrics and I think that's very obvious. In fact, I think he was aiming for a ludicrous sound. Half those songs wouldn't have the same effect if he was trying to be serious with his lyrics. Can you imagine 'On Sight' being approached as if it were 'Gorgeous'? It wouldn't work.
I find it really interesting how many Kanye fans dislike Yeezus
It shows how vastly different all of his albums are.
The production is just out of this world and I've never heard anything quite like it
In my opinion it's his best album and second most artistic after MBDTF.
I don't know why some people hate the lyrics. New Slaves and Blood on the leaves are among my faves by him lyrically.
The National deserve to be Top 10. It's nice to see Bill Callahan, Forest Swords and The Field on the list. That Phoenix album is disposable and probably their worst; actually I'm surprised to see it on the list over The Strokes' Comedown Machine. And no Charli XCX and James Blake?!
Yeezus is easily one of the worst rap albums of 2013 tho....
this. even a lot of the production is just tweaked death grips style. but because its kanye its 'original' and 'edgy'.
pretty much the DEHH review spoke my thoughts on Yeezus.
happy danny brown is so high up tho. old is awesome
Lawl at Yeezus. As a whole that album should not even be top ten, only it's production really hits the right spot.
It's a terrible album if you look at it as a hip-hop or rap fan. and since he's rapping on it, it's quite terrible to me aside from Blood On The Leaves & New Slaves.
