inb4 iyrtitl is not an album

Cherry Bomb

808s and Heartbreak

Yeezus

all these things will remain invisible to the world

damn yeah i didn’t even think about that

The King’s Disease series is cool to watch go down, Nas really locked in

you’d consider this a transitional record? i need your thoughts on this

great example

Rubber Soul / Revolver

I Don't Like S*** I Don't Go Outside

could argue it's a career revival record, which it is, but its transitional in terms of his sound and career space.

prior to benji, he was still in the mode of more transitional singer-songwriter, long ballads, more dense and poetic topics, and more lush and layered sounds (even Among The Leaves has Winery or the title track). While Perils From The Sea was kinda similar a year earlier, it was still a bit more digestible of a record, Benji was what really solidified a lot of re-interest in his career externally. Following Benji though, mark doubled down on the things people found the least accessible from Benji - stark minimalism, diary style stream of conscious writing, long songs, looping instrumentals, etc.

you could prob argue any record after Benji was just as transitory, but in reality every album before Benji shares characteristics and every album before it does, so it's the kind of sonic bridge between the two different parts of his career. Because right after Benji there's Universal Themes, Common As Light, This Is My Dinner, etc. which all slowly go further and further down that wrote of like long spoken word stream of conscious minimalism. Benji was a departure from the sounds of Ghosts, April, Admiral Fell Promises, etc. which were more grandiose and demanded critical appeal/attention, and delving into way more deeply individual (sonically not topically ofc) territory

revolver is the definition of a transitional album tbh

very well said man i get it now thank you

Futures 2015 run was a transitional period for him

hmmmm…maybe conceptually, but in my opinion ye is much more of a transitional moment. for how jumbled TLOP was and what not, i think it was pretty well defined era

I see where you are coming from, but I think TLOP is the album where all the religious themes start to come to fruition that later leads us to JIK and Donda.

mmmmmmm ok then yes i agree with you there

Ye was his transition to being trash and falling off

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