

He continues to hold our attention as he makes sense of his own findings on God and race and legacy and perfectionĮven Lamar’s off-cuts are meatier than anything many of his peers could even hope to produce at their peak Instead of shying away from the long shadow of To Pimp a Butterfly, untitled unmastered happily embraces that shared DNA, reveling in the subtleties that set it apart It’s both ambient yet thrashing, melodic yet radiating Untitled’s 34 minutes are so crammed with ideas that they almost need to be read like poetry, with annotations, to be fully appreciated

Is this the direction we want to see artists going, revealing their vault works to please a feverish fanbase? With a Renaissance man like Kendrick Lamar, the answer is yes, with anyone else, the conclusion is still up in the airĪ bonus disc that improbably holds up as an essential album in its own right Sort by ADM rating Sort by most recent review
