BTFO

>This is a superficial and, ultimately, middle-of-the-road album from an artist who lacks the visceral energy of Public Enemy and Tackhead while also lacking the poetic depth of Kanye West

FANTANO BTFO

>>70016439
>To Pimp A Buttlerfly only 6/10

WTF Scaruffi is racist??

>>70016501
>The poetic depth of Kanye West
Roofy says some really weird things sometimes

>>70016501
>poetic depth
NOW

>>70016439
>scaruffi
>critic
lmao you guys got pranked.
he's just some random contrarian.

>>70016818
IF I FUCK THIS MODEL

>>70016844
this

>>70016439
>TPAB being anything below 8/10
Pleb contrarian "critic" confirmed

>>70017441
He loves +@, and that's fine with me.

Well neither of those are 10/10 if that's what you're insinuating

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this nigga

>>70017932
His review is reasonable though. The music isn't innovative in any way. He did say that the level of honesty that Sufjan displays is admirable.

>>70017441
>giving 7+/10 to hipster Green Day
Top kek

>>70016790
>>70016818

I think you're taking this line too literally. I don't think Scaruffi is referring just to Kanye's lyricism here, but the overall meaning of his music.

The word "hype" wasn't enough to describe the media assault on the sprawling 80-minute To Pimp a Butterfly (2015), another meticulously crafted album that employed legions of writers, producers and musicians (including jazz pianist Robert Glasper and jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington). Six people wrote Wesley's Theory, including George Clinton, and four produced it, including Flying Lotus. Nine people are credited as writers for the funk-fest King Kunta, making it de facto a collage. The producers threw in more live instruments, resulting in a sound that is more revivalist than innovative, but also a sound that helps the general theatrical atmosphere. For better and for worse, The Blacker the Berry is the epitome of this emphatically pointless but fashionable avant-jazz-rap music. I begins as an olf-fashioned synth-pop hit of the 1980s before it begins to sound like a James Brown parody (with the lyrics "the number one rapper in the world" and "i love myself") accented by a jovial piano figure. The best psychodrama is possibly one of the simplest songs, the melodic funk-soul These Walls, and the best political sermon the equally straightforward funk ditty Hood Politics. But the music is secondary to the histrionics and it doesn't matter that the catchy and danceable Alright stands in opposition of the industrial beat that derails Momma, a fact that could account for at least eclecticism. This is a superficial and, ultimately, middle-of-the-road album from an artist who lacks the visceral energy of Public Enemy and Tackhead while also lacking the poetic depth of Kanye West and the musical genius of El-P. He tries to be all of them at once, but maybe he would be most credible if he were just himself: a brilliant script-writer of fictionalized real-life stories: the Christian parable How Much a Dollar Cost presents God disguised as a homeless man, and Mortal Man interviews the ghost of dead rapper 2Pac.

>>70016501
There's some truth to that actually.

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>>70016501
>poetic depth of Kanye West

>>70016844
>>70017288

why is scaruffi such a shit taste contrarian?

>>70020925
manletry

>>70020984
kek

what if david bowling hasnt died
think about it

>The symphonic crescendo Time As a Symptom is emblematic of what can happen when a singer-songwriter mis-interprets the word "music"

LMAO

Scaruffi has crawled way too far up his own ass on this one. Divers is definitely her worst project tied with TMEM, but this dude needs to chill out a little bit with his hyperbole.

The fact that he mentions her marriage to Samberg for seemingly no particular reason at all makes me believe he's jealous that his precious newsom got stolen by a dirty ebreo

>>70018095
>He did say that the level of honesty that Sufjan displays is admirable.

>While the music is the exact opposite of "groundbreaking", one has to give him credit that not many singer-songwriters have been able to express their most personal feelings with such clarity and nakedness.

What the fuck? Scaruffi's now praising albums for "muh feels"? Is he going soft now? This goes against everything he stands for.

>>70018717
>lacking the poetic depth of Kanye West

Sorry are we listening to the same rappers? I don't think Kenny's the second coming of christ or anything and I think Kanye has built himself an amazing legacy, but has Scaruffi lost his mind?

>>70021147

>This goes against everything he stands for.

Scaruffi has always valued emotion.

>>70021147

>>What the fuck? Scaruffi's now praising albums for "muh feels"? Is he going soft now? This goes against everything he stands for.

"I am not too interested in the instrumental technique. I am more interested in emotion than in technique. Traditionally, jazz has been associated with technique (an odd mis-interpretation of the original spirit of Afro-american music by white intellectuals). I do not enjoy listening to music for the sake of a brilliant solo. That solo has to deliver emotion. If it is technically breathtaking but does not deliver any emotion, that musician is not very interesting to me. There is a difference, in my opinion, between a juggler and an artist. If the playing is barely passable, but it delivers a lot of emotion, that musician is a genius."

>>70021147
He always did you dummy. He praised Pink Moon by Nick Drake for being one of the "most depressing" albums of all time