![]() The album is purportedly a tribute to Kanye's late mother, Donda West, who died in 2007. We're reminded of West's 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.ĭonda isn't without its highlights, but taken as a whole, it's both confused and confusing. "Junya" is upbeat and confident, with a cheery church organ sample and another skeletal rhythm track serving as a backing track for lively flows. Traces of the old Kanye show up alongside this new subtractive approach. "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. It's a banger with no bang, though, waiting until the last seconds of the song to bring in a brief, stilted drum pattern. The hooky "Jail" sounds like a rocked-up version of something from Graduation, with Auto-Tuned vocals swimming happily around crunchy guitars. This is perhaps most apparent in the conspicuous absence of drums from many of the tracks. Still bearing the religious overtones of 2019's Jesus Is King, West assembles the sprawling Donda from minimal arrangements that linger while feeling eerily unfinished. The music itself tells a different story. 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 first noticeable thing about Kanye West's tenth studio album, Donda, is its mass.
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