Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Mar 25th, 2011 by gcunniff
Check Our Catalog“Amid the zapping prog-lift of the vaguely Nietzschean “Power,” the lead single from his fifth album and magnum opus, Kanye tosses off the casual self-platitude “Every superhero needs his theme music.” “But if he’s a superhero, who is he saving? Perhaps the music industry, quickly in need of rescue now that it’s in the digital 21st-century doldrums. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, all 66 minutes of it, is a bold return to the “event album,” the like of which hasn’t been seen since Guns N’ Roses’ 1991 Use Your Illusion twin turbos. The sprawling strokes sound like an enormous limited-edition retro sneaker crushing down on the timid works of other Class-of-’10-ers.” –The Boston Phoenix