Donda (Deluxe Edition)

2021年8月にデジタル配信され、2022年2月にCDが発売された10枚目となるスタジオ・アルバムの待望のLPが発売決定!
ジェイ・Z、ザ・ウィークエンド、トラヴィス・スコット、クリス・ブラウン、リル・ベイビー、ポップ・スモーク、リル・ヨッティー、プレイボーイ・カーティなど、30組を超える豪華アーティストたちが多数参加していることも話題に。

The first noticeable thing about Kanye Wests tenth studio album, Donda, is its mass. With 27 tracks, a running time of an hour and 48 minutes, and a dense list of contributors including Jay-Z, Kid Cudi, Roddy Ricch, Jay Electronica, Travis Scott, Lil Durk, and many, many more, Donda is poised to be an epic statement, an all-out event. The music itself tells a different story. Still bearing the religious overtones of 2019s Jesus Is King, West assembles the sprawling Donda from minimal, often eerie arrangements. This is perhaps most apparent in the conspicuous absence of drums from many of the tracks. The hooky Jail sounds like a rocked-up version of something from Graduation, with Auto-Tuned vocals swimming happily around crunchy guitars. Its a banger with no bang, though, waiting until the last seconds of the song to bring in a brief, stilted drum pattern. Tell the Vision also lacks a forceful rhythm track, stitching together a stumbling piano loop with fragmented hi-hat skitters to hold a ghostly verse from Pop Smoke. Traces of the old Kanye show up alongside this new subtractive approach. Junya is upbeat and confident, with a cheery church organ sample and another skeletal rhythm track serving as a backing track for lively flows. Were reminded of Wests production mastery when he cuts up a Lauryn Hill sample for standout track Believe What I Say, while Lord I Need You carries diminished echoes of the grandiose pop magnitude of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and the thick bass and abrasive rush of God Breathed would fit in on Yeezus. Donda isnt without its highlights, but taken as a whole its both confused and confusing. The album is purportedly a tribute to Kanyes late mother, Donda West, who died in 2007. Dondas presence is felt throughout the record, in particular during moments like the somber beauty of Jesus Lord, and more directly on the song that bears her name and includes audio of her speaking. ~ Fred Thomas