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808s & Heartbreak by Kanye West

808s & Heartbreak

Release Date: 1/1/2008

Recording Date: 11/2008

Tracks: 13

Length: 00:54:33 Hrs

Label: Universal Distribution

Type: CD

Genre/Styles:
Urban, United States of America, Pop-Rap, R&B, Midwest Rap, Pop

Album Tracks (13)

Song Title
Length
1.
Say You Will
06:17
2.
Welcome to Heartbreak
04:23
3.
Heartless
03:31
4.
Amazing
03:58
5.
Love Lockdown
04:30
6.
Paranoid
04:37
7.
Robocop
04:34
8.
Street Lights
03:09
9.
Bad News
03:58
10.
See You in My Nightmares
04:18
11.
Coldest Winter
02:45
12.
[Untitled] [Live]
08:33
13.
[CD-Rom Track]
00:00

What the Critics Say

Remember when Kanye West threatened to make an album where he would bear his heartbroken soul, align with T-Pain, sing on every song with the then inescapable Auto-Tune effect, and lean on the Roland TR-808 drum machine? It could have been a wreck, a case of an artist working through paralyzing heartache while loose in a toy store. Except West wasn't joking. In various spots across 808s & Heartbreak, the constant flutter of West's processed voice is enlivened by the disarming manner in which despair and dejection are conveyed. Several tracks have almost as much in common with irrefutably bleak post-punk albums as contemporary rap and R&B. For anyone sifting through a broken relationship and self-letdown, this could all be therapeutic. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi

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