[Severian]

Oh, not to steal the spotlight from Yeezy, but ... The (kind of) new Quasimoto came out today. Sounds... Like a bunch of really bizarrely chosen b-sides. And that's pretty much what it is. However, I bought it because I do not own most of these tracks legitimately.

[h8kurdt]

All this hype about Kanye's new album is making me want to revile and totally ignore it.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by h8kurdt

All this hype about Kanye's new album is making me want to revile and totally ignore it.

Your loss, man. Why ignore an album because people say it's good? I used to have that impulse myself, but I can't say I recall why. Anyway, best if luck with all that.

[noisereductions]

alright so first listen impression:

jaw on the floor omg wow.

Yeezus is like Kanye fronting Suicide. It's just, wow.

[louder]

https://soundcloud.com/xdannyxbrownx...eat-a-ap-rocky

FINALLY OUT!! great song. can't wait for OLD.

EDIT: Rocky could've gone harder though.

[louder]

Originally Posted by noisereductions

alright so first listen impression:

jaw on the floor omg wow.

Yeezus is like Kanye fronting Suicide. It's just, wow.

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your album of the year so far?

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by noisereductions

Yeezus is like Kanye fronting Suicide. It's just, wow.

Didn't MIA already do that a couple of years ago? Did kanye rip her off?

[noisereductions]

Originally Posted by louder

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your album of the year so far?

hahaha I don't know yet. Let me put it this way,

I'd say YEEZUS is the most impressive album of the year (so far). So uh, "Best Album" of the year so far?

But I'd still probably call LONG.LIVE.A$AP. my "Favorite" album of the year (so far). It's the one I"ve listened to the most. The one I keep going back to.

Does that make sense? They're my Top 2 albums of the year so far, but in diff ways.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by noisereductions

hahaha I don't know yet. Let me put it this way,

I'd say YEEZUS is the most impressive album of the year (so far). So uh, "Best Album" of the year so far?

But I'd still probably call LONG.LIVE.A$AP. my "Favorite" album of the year (so far). It's the one I"ve listened to the most. The one I keep going back to.

Does that make sense? They're my Top 2 albums of the year so far, but in diff ways.

LongLive grows on me more every time I listen, but Yeezus kills it. I can, however, easily envision a future where I find LongLive more enjoyable. It is not better, or even really comparable. But it's a lot less emotionally intense. Yeezus has some moments that actually kind of hurt.

Fronting suicide... Funnily enough, when I think of how much pain I can hear behind the voice on this album, I think of In Utero.

Lots of people are making lots of stupid jokes about this album. Anyone read the Entertainment Weekly piece about Kanye and Lucille Bluth? It was a quiz comparing the lyrics on Yeezus to the satirically empty social tunnel vision of a white woman so privileged that her prison is a fucking spa resort.

Apparently EW thinks white inherited wealth = ridiculously awesome / black "by the bootstraps" wealth = just ridiculous.

I hate having to sound like a knee jerk liberal, or one of those "cultural sensitivity" nuts who calls Nas racist for naming his album "Nigger," but fucking Christ that shit is insulting.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by louder

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your album of the year so far?

I'm totally thrown off this year. As incredible as Yeezus is (made me cry a little today... Not gonna lie), it's only fair to give it more than a day before placing it above new releases by a shitload of my favorite bands and artists of all time.

So I'm still going to have to say "the Terror" is at the top of the list. I could rattle off a top five for the fuck of it, and Yeezus would most definitely be in there. It's the best hip hop album of the year, but whether I prefer it to new MBV, Deerhunter, or Boards of Canada... That will require some serious consideration.

[Severian]

Have you guys caught that verse about Beyonce and Jay-Z in "Blood on the Leaves?" I heard it without the annoyance of work activity or (ugh) conversation today, and my jaw dropped.

I can see why foreverasskiss thinks I'm a pussy; the extent of Kanye's jadedness, hopelessness, and sense of betrayal are heartbreaking to me. It's not just political angst and social injustice that are eating away at him. It feels like it's his own life.

On first listen, the album's ending felt like it came out of nowhere. But the more I hear it, the more it makes sense to me, and the more fitting it feels.

Fuck Facebook, EW, and any other source that talks this album down with the same cliche's used to slam Real Housewives of Wherever the Fuck and other trash media. Way to keep hip hop from achieving universal and cross-cultural legitimacy by convincing the world that the most legitimate artist in the genre is fucking Brett Michaels. (Oh, but keep repping the shit out of Macklemore, who is of course the real deal, especially since he sells songs to the MLB and sings about gay marriage and equality while in the same song taking pains to make sure nobody thinks he's gay. Twat.)

[louder]

LOL.

[louder]

oh shit guys, new DELTRON 3030 single!!

off "EVENT II".

https://soundcloud.com/officialdeltron/deltron-3030-city-rising-from

 

[Severian]

You beat me to it, louder. You're making me wish your username rhymed with more things that sound like sexual innuendos. All I can think of is chowder, and that could work but it would be reaching.

Fuck me, the new Deltron. Really happening.
All we need is for Kool Keith to make an album that isn't horrible, and the Cold Vein sequel to not fall through. I think I would quit my day job if that were to happen. I mean, who would expect me to function with that much THC in me at all times.

... Seriously, this is as big as a new MBV. Bigger perhaps, because MBV at least left behind a catalogue. We're finally getting album 2 thirteen years later.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by foreverasskiss

i feel you need to quit yr day job. you think way too much. do you have a problem with yr sweaty hands and black people?

louder??, he's just another jewboy jumpin on the black bandwagon.

I'm nowhere near drunk enough to come up with a comeback for that.

[noisereductions]

word new Deltron is indeed exciting.

@Sev: there's been a handful of decent Kool Keith albums in the last... decade. I loved Thee Undertakerz. And Deisel Truckers was pretty solid.

And um... hmm... well Nogatco Rd. was pretty alright. Project Polaroid was not bad. Hmm.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by noisereductions

word new Deltron is indeed exciting.

@Sev: there's been a handful of decent Kool Keith albums in the last... decade. I loved Thee Undertakerz. And Deisel Truckers was pretty solid.

And um... hmm... well Nogatco Rd. was pretty alright. Project Polaroid was not bad. Hmm.

All true, but Im still waiting for an album that's better than pretty good. Novatco Rd was my favorite of that bunch, for what it's worth. Not bad at all. I should have chosen my words better.

[Severian]

Wait what the fuck am I talking about? Thee Undertakerz was the best of that bunch. Ugh. Mornings.

[noisereductions]

I'm glad someone else picked up on the awesomeness of Undertakerz. I feel like that one flew under the radar of most folks, but these days I'm just as likely to pop that in as First Come First Served when I need a Keith fix.

[noisereductions]

OMG YES!

In April, A$AP Rocky told reporters that he'd be releasing an album of self-produced instrumental beats later this year. The project now has a name and a rough release date: Beauty and the Beast: Slowed Down Sessions (Chapter 1) will be out before the end of the summer as a free download. Rocky told MTV that the album would be a mix of "really druggy, ambient shit" and would feature "classical music and boom-bap Wu-Tang shit mixed together." (Via FACT.)