Nobody halfway sane could have made this album.” “Yeezy goes for the grandeur of stadium rock, the all-devouring sonics of hip-hop, the erotic gloss of disco, and he goes for all of it, all the time. Rolling Stone gives Fantasy five out of five stars.

Friday series is sandwiched between them.) Opulence bumps up against grit, until the music begins to sound a little decayed, tragic, and under threat.”Īs a semi-related bonus, Vulture also lists the best things Kanye has done all year in order of awesomeness - they place his piano-tinkling douchebag toast “ Runaway” as number one, and the Bon Iver-sampling “ Lost In This World” as three.

Elegant minor-key melodies keep bumping up against rawness and ego. Vulture calls the album “adventurous, fierce, and full of vitality”, and loves the way West combines “classical refinement” with symbols of toxicity and ugliness: “Crisp, graceful sounds keep bumping up against muddy, sweaty ones. Few stars of comparable wattage would dare do the same.”

Entertainment Weekly gives Kanye’s album an A, calling it his “most consistently compelling full-length since 2005?s Late Registration.” They state that at times, “West may be obnoxious, but at least he’s interested in confronting those aspects of his identity through his music.

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