My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: Maximalism

It seems impossible at this point to talk about a Kanye West album without first reckoning with Kanye West the person. This is particularly true of the deeply personal, often immensely self-aware, and always uncompromising My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye’s gargantuan classic. As Kanye pulls out all of his tricks on MBDTF, so too do Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and Anthony Gonzalez of M83 on The Fragile and Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, respectively. Matt talks about the vital connection between emotion, and often emotional distress or mental illness, and Maximalist music before Tim decides which of these heavyweights is the heaviest.