Heartbreaking, indeed. With lyrics like “Memories made in the coldest winter/Goodbye my friend, will I ever love again?” and “Tell everybody that you know/That I don`t love you no more/And that’s one thing that you know” and “I’m just not there in the streets/Im just not there/Life’s just not fair.”
The beats, hypnotic, pull the listener into a head-nodding rhythmic trance. The new sounds in Kanye West’s album floats to the eclectic and undefinable genre of electric/power-pop/punk/psychedelic/lounge-ish. There is a parallel in his new creative techniques with the likes of M.I.A. that are finding their sounds into the mainstream, only recently.
It’s a leap for him, but, especially, for his fan base; yet, the music is not quite new. The adoption/innovation curve of this unnamed genre has almost reached the late majority these days. West can find a niche, or a cozy fit for 808s and Heartbreak in the path following the innovations of musicians like Santogold. He’s feeding into his desires to explore and expand his type of sound, and can now find courage to do that due to its avant-garde beat, rendering it more enticing and intoxicating. He was destined to go down this path with is music; sampling from daft punk in “Stronger” was only the beginning of his key role in widening gates for the funk/psychedelic/videogaming/robotic sounds of electronic back beats to make its way to mass audiences.
“Welcome To Hearbreak” Kanye West:
The intros of each track are mesmerizing. The hypnotic effects are followed by his voice—less like the talents of true vocalists, but more like reciting words in a melodic way, with occasional bursts of wailing (accustom to the lyrical technique of M.I.A.). This combination, still, delivers a delicious set of sounds and composes an amazing album.
Cecilia
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