Kanye West is about to release his pop album 808’s & Heartbreak on Monday November 24th. Albums are usually released on Tuesdays but Kanye is breaking with tradition with a Monday album released in stores and online. Here is an excerpt from the album press release.
808s & HEARTBREAK by Kanye West,
including "Love Lockdown" and "Heartless" One-time only Monday in-store
date for physical and digital marketplace anticipates big Thanksgiving
weekend holiday gift shopping In an unprecedented move that brings change to a decades-old practice
in the record industry — "Tuesdays in-store" — the Island Def Jam
Music Group will break with tradition when its three biggest year-end album releases by three of IDJ’s most important multi-platinum acts.Myspace has an exclusive first listen which is also available on Kanye’s blog. Click here to stream and download the album on the Kanye Blog.
The Telegraph UK offers their overview of the emo album from the hip-hop star. Binside TV will post an album review soon.
The break-up album is one of pop music’s finest genres, perfected by
the masters – Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Otis Reading, Bruce Springsteen
and Marvin Gaye.Now the ever-ambitious Kanye West is attempting to
join them with his saddest work yet. Apart from a couple of songs about
the loss of his mother, the entire album chronicles the disintegration
of West’s relationship and his ensuing loneliness and early mid-life
crisis.Offsetting these dramatic emotions, he
sticks to a monochromatic musical palette, singing through an
electronic voice tuner on top of retro-synthesisers and drum machines.
The artificial sounds heighten the sense of his very human pain and
isolation, sometimes to poignant effect, sometimes claustrophobically
so.West has, thankfully, dropped the pantomime
hip-hop wars with rapper 50 Cent and made a pure pop album. The music,
as on brilliant lead single Heartbreaker, is often better for this,
graphically representing the sound of a tormented psyche tossing and
turning on a restless military beat. Yet, the lyrics, while admirably
honest, and occasionally hilarious (as when he compares his ex-fiancée
to Robocop), become monotonous and solipsistic. source
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Thanks for the heads up.