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Topic	~ Perfect Places: Giggs' 50 favourite albums of 2017 ~
Giggsalot 01/06/18 6:12:36 PM #75:	glad to be helping you guys find some cool stuff! I imagine everyone's already heard this one though. 10. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN Key Track: DNA ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLZRYQMLDW4) Absolutely no introduction needed here, so I'll jump straight to the hot take: I like DAMN more than To Pimp a Butterfly. I'm not going to say it's better, and I completely understand why people would be disappointed with this. It's a mortal record, after all. Even Butterfly's moments of humility felt choreographed to convey a specific message, but DAMN has no real cohesion and pop overtures and trendy beat choices and U2 are here for some reason. It's a mess. But it's significantly more intriguing for that. DAMN features Kendrick's weirdest and most pop-friendly material ever slotted side by side, deliberately contradicting each other in sound, theme and moral. GKMC and Butterfly both condescended their audience at times by overtly explaining their subtextual themes, but DAMN has weird repeated concepts that never get resolved, a completely non-linear structure, and a bizarre "black Israelite" subplot that must be among the most apocalyptic and frightening ideologies ever featured on a hit record. The fact that DAMN presents all these things without significant explanation or context is the record's strength. Like most of us, Kendrick is a man with a lot on his mind, and not all of it will make sense or cohere into a single path. It's an album that strips him of the prophet label and shows us the conflicted, damaged man he is. And that gives me a lot to go back to; I love the general sound of this thing, from the melancholic interstitial soul pieces to the psychedelia of deep cuts like LUST and FEAR, and lyrically there's always something new to uncover. DAMN is an album with immense replay value, and while I doubt Kendrick is entirely done with high concept work, if this messy, confused artist is the rapper we're dealing with from here on, I'd be more than okay with that. --- And if you don't know, now you know. <cite>Giggsalot posted [p:893549432] in ~ Perfect ... [t:76149349]...</cite> <quote>glad to be helping you guys find some cool stuff! I imagine everyone's already heard this one though. 10. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN Key Track: DNA ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLZRYQMLDW4) Absolutely no introduction needed here, so I'll jump straight to the hot take: I like DAMN more than To Pimp a Butterfly. I'm not going to say it's better, and I completely understand why people would be disappointed with this. It's a mortal record, after all. Even Butterfly's moments of humility felt choreographed to convey a specific message, but DAMN has no real cohesion and pop overtures and trendy beat choices and U2 are here for some reason. It's a mess. But it's significantly more intriguing for that. DAMN features Kendrick's weirdest and most pop-friendly material ever slotted side by side, deliberately contradicting each other in sound, theme and moral. GKMC and Butterfly both condescended their audience at times by overtly explaining their subtextual themes, but DAMN has weird repeated concepts that never get resolved, a completely non-linear structure, and a bizarre "black Israelite" subplot that must be among the most apocalyptic and frightening ideologies ever featured on a hit record. The fact that DAMN presents all these things without significant explanation or context is the record's strength. Like most of us, Kendrick is a man with a lot on his mind, and not all of it will make sense or cohere into a single path. It's an album that strips him of the prophet label and shows us the conflicted, damaged man he is. And that gives me a lot to go back to; I love the general sound of this thing, from the melancholic interstitial soul pieces to the psychedelia of deep cuts like LUST and FEAR, and lyrically there's always something new to uncover. DAMN is an album with immense replay value, and while I doubt Kendrick is entirely done with high concept work, if this messy, confused artist is the rapper we're dealing with from here on, I'd be more than okay with that. --- And if you don't know, now you know.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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