Yeezus
Kanye West

5.0 + I'd mistakenly remembered this record as the odd sibling to "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" but it's 100% a whole-ass album in its own right. Those noisy, glitchy beats on songs like "On Sight" are undeniably awesome, especially when Kanye juxtaposes them with gorgeous vocal samples (e.g. "Strange Fruit" on "Blood On The Leaves"). Bon Iver's melancholic falsetto similarly provides striking contrast on "I'm In It." This is Kanye at his most urgent and propulsive.

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