![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 2010 was a year where West was not exactly overly-popular with the media and the public. I would advise people buying My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy on vinyl, as it is well worth investment – and the vinyl is good value for an album that runs in at nearly seventy minutes! Rather than give a big background to the album and the sort of themes that inspired the album, I want to bring in a couple of reviews and a great article that looks back at My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ten years after its release. Some critics have likened the album to an artist’s palette and approach – a work that has different styles much like we differentiate different artistic movements. With enormous songs like POWER, Monster, and All the Lights in the pack, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is a classic, no doubt! More than that, the album is a complete work that is so full of ambition and different sounds. The album celebrated its tenth anniversary in November - and I think it is one that still reverberates and moves people today. He is definitely a Hip-Hop pioneer and, debatably, one of his finest moments came in the form of his fifth studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, of 2010. "Kanye’s magnum opus - a rich and bombastic culmination of his career as a rapper, producer, and music-legend wrangler.", "Possibly the best album of the year.West has expanded his sonic palate by incorporating imprecise choir-like chants, new accents and inflections, epic horns, prog-rock samples, sinister guitar riffs and spoken word.", "The record sounds innately full and vibrant, but by peeling back a few layers, West has emerged with his most effective, plaintive work ever.", "This is not just West's best album, it's a keen contender for the most ambitious LP in hip-hop history.", 5 stars out of 5 - "A genuinely great record.The album's subtleties run deep and devastating.", "The bulk of MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY finds him augmenting classic breaks and moody loops with large and immaculate orchestral flourishes.", 5 stars out of 5 - "MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY is his most manically inspired music yet.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.", 4 stars out of 5 - "A fascinating record, a sumptuous musical banquet at which Bon Iver and Aphex Twin rub shoulders with Jay-Z, Smokey Robinson and a whole Broadway chorus.What Kanye West says and his political ruminations, one cannot fault the music from the man! He has created some of the best albums of the past couple of decades. ![]()
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