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...College Dropout. But if you think you're invulnerable to an atmospheric ballad with Maroon 5's chirpy Adam Levine (Heard 'Em Say) or a song called Roses about a sick grandma, you will be shocked at the stealthy power of West's storytelling. As for the music, one listen to Gone, built around an Otis Redding sample and some ecstatic string arrangements, and you might be persuaded that West is as good as he thinks he is. Best Tracks: Heard 'Em Say, Drive Slow, Gone...
...Neil Young Prairie Wind; $18.98 These spare, mostly acoustic songs about death, loss and life's rearview mirror make for a draining listen. But they're not a drag because Young knows exactly how an album this thematically grim-he wrote and recorded it between being diagnosed with and treated for a brain aneurysm-needs to sound. At his most frightened (Falling Off the Face of the Earth), there's an easy melody and notes of assurance from the impeccably played instruments. And when he contemplates all his choices (The Painter) and wonders if he has got lost, the voices...
...latest single from their third album, “Twin Cinema,” is a catchy, keyboard-driven romp with strangely compelling, but ultimately nonsensical, lyrics (listen for the censored Rolling Stones reference in the second verse...
...know, I don’t really care. I’m healthy, that’s all I care about…I think Aesop Rock is really important to indie rap. El-P, I just happen to be friends with all the guys that I listen too. I think Atmosphere is really important to hip-hop right now…I wanted to get real musicians on my record, not just other dudes that just spit on my record because they are more famous than me. I don’t give a fuck about that...
...myself, I wanted to step out of the box. I don’t want to represent black stereotypes. I think it’s disgusting that white people that listen to rap music have to kind of play that role. I don’t get edge-ups anymore?...