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" No lead single, a few select performances and Twitter on a constant hum. Kanye West&amp;#039;s approach to releasing Yeezus was enough to put plenty of people off it, if only his output wasn&amp;#039;t so consistently impressive. And if that wasn&amp;#039;t enough, in a recent interview with the New York Times he claimed his sixth outing comes from a place of being &amp;quot;anti&amp;quot;, expressing his views on race and relationships over music more stripped back than he&amp;#039;d ever made before.  The result is an eerily dark and daring record infused with hipster house, punk, stadium-shaking rock, soul and hip-hop courtesy of co-producers Rick Rubin, Daft Punk, No ID and RZA. Opener &amp;#039;On Sight&amp;#039; does its best to exhaust all of the sounds at once, blending abrasive industrial dance breaks with crackly soul sampling and West&amp;#039;s own inimitable rapping quirks. From there onwards, things continue at a startlingly relentless and urgent pace that at times proves difficult to digest.  Lyrically, Yeezus ranges from insightful, irritatingly arrogant, to the plain bonkers. &amp;#039;Black Skinhead&amp;#039; hears him erratically accusing middle America of racism (&amp;quot;You see a black man with a white woman at the top floor/ they gon&amp;#039; come to kill King Kong&amp;quot;) over a rumbling tribal beat, while on &amp;#039;I Am A God&amp;#039; he embraces the negative side to his image, quipping: &amp;quot;Hurry up with damn croissants!&amp;quot; Then there&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m In It&amp;#039;, on which he declares: &amp;quot;Black girl sipping white wine, put my fist in her like the Civil Rights sign,&amp;quot; the squelchy production serving as the musical equivalent of a snuff film. Thankfully, amongst the jarring production and heavy subject matter, Kanye shows that glimpses of his former self are still in there. &amp;#039;Blood On The Leaves&amp;#039;, which samples Nina Simone&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Strange Fruit&amp;#039;, is a welcome shedding-of-his-thoughts moment, while closer &amp;#039;Bound 2&amp;#039; interpolates Ponderosa Twins Plus One&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Bound&amp;#039; with a glorious Charlie Wilson-assisted chorus to leave things on a high. Yeezus may not make for the easiest listen, but it&amp;#039;s hard to fault his knack for a thrilling and wildly unpredictable one.   Tracks to download: &amp;#039;Black Skinhead&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;New Slaves&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Blood On The Leaves&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Bound 2&amp;#039; Listen to &amp;#039;Black Skinhead&amp;#039; below:       "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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