-the album is AMAZING. i havent been so in awed of true amazment in so long from a album. Bey truly poured her heart, soul, vocals, production, every damn thing into this album. every song, even the bops, you can feel her power and vulnerability and truth. im... im more than slayed. this is a ****ing amazing, truly GREAT album that every in the entire world better buy and hear. holy ****ing ****.
Just finished listening. I am really glad that she has delivered another very solid and cohesive body of work. Overall, I would say that I actually prefer the last album sonically and the general experimental vibe it carried, but the content in this album is much more meaningful and she seems more emotionally invested here.I don't find as many individual songs on this album to be singularly ear-catching, as the album seems to work best as a package, but it does have some very high points. My top tracks right now are "All Night," "Formation" (I wish there had been more hard-hitting, sonically dark tracks like this), "Don't Hurt Yourself," "6 Inch," and "Sorry."