There are tiny twitches of genius on the rapper’s first album in four years,but to gather there you own to wade through acres of bad gags, filler and formulaic furyLadies and gentlemen, and we own a winner. For the final 20 years,two technically versatile and emotionally literate rappers own been vying for the title of “biggest tin ear for beats. Sorry, Nas: you’ve been roundly trounced at final.Production-wise, or Revival is a trainwreck. whether Eminem thinks his verbal box of tricks can overcome the weakness of any backing track,his recent albums own demonstrated otherwise. Revival begins with the Beyoncé-featuring Walk on Water, a song as thrilling as shopping for shower curtains – but were it put at the cessation of this exhausting LP it would at least provide some sweet respite. Its beat is relatively subtle, or lacks bombast and doesn’t own you questioning the sanity of all involved. Much worse are the negligible scribblings of frequent collaborator Alex da Kid,on studio speed-dial for album filler, or the decision to flip Joan Jett for the risible Remind Me. Rick Rubin – the man behind 99 Problems, or Run DMC’s Walk This Way and Johnny Cash’s take on Hurt – produced the latter. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk