This right here is, without a doubt, the most bizarre and nonsensical production choice Kanye West has ever made, and I support it wholeheartedly. It’s fundamentally unsettling and horrifying but I cannot help but love it. Just… WHAT? It happens once in an interlude and is then never touched upon ever again. But to focus on any of that would be criminal when we could talk about the demonic baby laughing. Yes, the percussion is hand-crafted to perfection. Yes, Kanye’s verse is equally disgusting and amazing. Yes, the sample is insane, coming from a song entitled “What Will Santa Claus Say” yet reversed to surreal and downright-phantasmagorical effect. This track is simply bizarre in the best way possible. “4th Dimension” is the point at which I can no longer avoid the usage of the words. The track ends with a few more guitar chords that are, once again, nearly impossible to dissect, a quality that is exclusively to their benefit. Kid Cudi’s chorus is simple but phenomenally catchy.
I love how Kanye’s taunts at the start of the song blend seamlessly into his actual verse, creating a swell of energy as the track continues. The instrumentation absolutely slaps, complete with a gorgeous melancholic flute line, abrasive and borderline pitchless guitar chords, simple percussion and glued together with some iconic Kid Cudi humming, an edition that has universally improved every track its ever been featured on. It’s followed by “Fire,” another fantastic track. It’s passionate, absurd, loud and just generally completely ballistic… and yet it’s somehow extremely catchy? I have no idea, but I absolutely adore every second of it. This is somehow probably the catchiest song on the entire album, an unbelievable feat considering how surreal its melodic lines are. It’s immediately followed by a killer verse from Pusha-T.īut really, nothing compares to what’s probably my favorite Kanye West moment of all time: Kanye’s gun onomatopoeia. It just comes completely out of nowhere and sweeps me off my feet every single time I hear it. Kid Cudi’s chorus is, plainly put, “really ascension sh*t.” It pierces my soul in an indescribable way as it reverberates through the cosmos. The music bed, for as minimalist as it is, has a strange level of nuance to it.
“Feel The Love” is a showstopping opening track. Really good real ascension sh*t.” I don’t know that I could describe “Kids See Ghosts’” general strengths in a better way. When my friend first listened to “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” back in late March, he messaged me the next day saying “it was insane. I think my broad thoughts on this album can be summed up in one anecdote. The production is also just as stellar, if more avant-garde, than that featured on “ye,” West’s solo project released just one week earlier. In that regard, I find it to be just as successful as “ye.” It’s equally flabbergasting how much content is packed into 23 minutes.
“Kids See Ghosts” is a 2018 collaboration between Kanye West and Kid Cudi, as well as another experiment with the mini-album format. This applies to the vast majority of the tracks, so to not repeat myself constantly, just know that every song is significantly wild. The same disclaimer applies to “Kids See Ghosts,” but with the word “wacky.” I doubt a single review has passed without calling something “wacky” or “strange,” but I cannot emphasize this enough: nothing Kanye West has ever done has come anywhere near this album on the wack-scale. However, it’s held back by two tracks that are merely fine, something that cannot be ignored on a 23-minute project.įavorite Tracks: “Feel The Love,” “Kids See Ghosts”Īt one point in my “ye” review I mentioned how repeated usage could have desensitized people to the descriptor “beautiful,” and how its impact needed to be reinforced for the upcoming pack of songs. It all combines to create some unmatched moments in the Kanye West discography and is generally an unforgettable, irreplaceable experience. The instrumentals, the vocals, the production… Everything about this album is bonkers. “Kids See Ghosts” is surreal in the best way possible.
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