RATING: 4 (out of 5) Mobile users, please click here. And one of the most important and inspired works of their career.
It extends to their musical palette, which stays true to their past while moving forward by accessorizing Gibbard’s dreamy, tasteful songcraft with more complex rhythms and gleaming synths. It continues in the earnest, honest lyrics to songs like Ghosts of Beverly Drive, Little Wanderer and You’ve Haunted Me All My Life. The theme begins in the symbolic title, which refers to the Japanese art of repairing pottery and the philosophy of incorporating breakage into an object’s history. Not surprisingly, it has plenty to say about big life changes - goodbyes and departures, deaths and rebirths, losses and leaps of faith. It’s also their final disc with guitarist Chris Walla, their first to feature an outside producer, and their first since singer-guitarist and songwriter Ben Gibbard got divorced. It’s the eighth album from Seattle’s Death Cab for Cutie. Some are just more satisfying than others. RATING: 4.5 (out of 5) Mobile users, please click here.ĭeath Cab for Cutie Kintsugi Every beginning signals an end. Or, to quote another African-American icon of substance and style: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. But most importantly, there is Lamar, tying all the loose threads together eloquently and entertainingly with his spectacular vernacular, idiosyncratic flow, rapid-fire rasp and piercing intelligence. There’s even a spoken-word narrative of self-destruction, self-discovery and reinvention running through the album. Dre, George Clinton, Bilal, Pharrell, Snoop and the hologram of Tupac Shakur. There are cameos and contributions by a who’s-who crew that includes Dr.
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There are bumptious P-Funk jams and slices of ’70s soul beat-poet rebop and free jazz soundscapes ominous gangsta grooves and sunny hip-pop. And one of the most eclectic - hovering midway between a concept album, a mixtape, a sociological thesis, a soundtrack and a fever dream, the 78-minute epic To Pimp a Butterfly is stuffed to the rafters with ideas and inspirations, sounds and styles. Audaciously bold, restlessly innovative, intoxicatingly funky and irresistibly appealing on multiple levels, the 27-year-old Lamar’s third full-length firmly establishes him as one of the most revolutionary and compelling forces in music. How do you follow that? With one of the best rap albums of the decade, naturally. Coming straight outta Compton with his eyes on the prize, Lamar shot to the top with the acclaimed, Grammy-nominated Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, the best rap album of 2012. ALBUMS OF THE WEEK Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly There are rappers with style.