![]() ![]() It is an often-bruising divorce album, an intermittently stirring devotional album, a feature-heavy bacchanal that mostly avoids random DJ Khaled-style listlessness, and a relentless torrent of Kanye-style lyrical groaners of both the Good Bad and the Bad Bad variety. ![]() "Donda" is the best Kanye album since "Pablo." It features the single worst verse on a Kanye album by anybody since Jay-Z on "Monster." (Relax, it's not him.) It features, for a few fleeting moments, the best singing Kanye himself has ever done. For the past few years, West has mostly brought car-crash spectacle to the world. "Donda" is still car-crash spectacle, but it's car-crash spectacle as art, rather than just as plea for attention. ![]() But even at its most tedious, "Donda" is never predictable. It's sometimes interminable, sometimes irritating, sometimes moving, sometimes beautiful. "Donda" is a messy and indulgent splurge of an album. Though There Are Flashes Of Brilliance Throughout The Album West understands how to deploy electronic minimalism, how to make mood music. If you put on "Donda" while you're reading or cooking or cleaning your house, you might sometimes forget that you're hearing a Kanye West album. The album is also way, way too long, and it often blurs into the background, transforming into spartan and architectural background music. Ven if "Donda" recalls some of the out-there textures of "808s & Heartbreak," it's no "808s." "Donda" doesn't have that sharpness of focus, that bleak melodic force. ![]() There are plenty of seeds of what could be good ideas here, and some legit great tracks, but had he taken a little more time to edit things, this could have been a classic - focussed, poignant and powerful. There is no artist in the world capable of making a flawless record that spans nearly two hours - Kanye included. "Donda" Is Way Too Long And In A Dire Need Of An EditĪt one hour and 44 minutes, "Donda" is incredibly - and unnecessarily - long. ![]()
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