No_One Ever Really Dies : N.E.R.D's comeback album

I don't think there's a thread about this (until today I didn't even know they were about to release something...).
Apparently, it's going to be out this week !

1. Deep Down Body Thirst
2. Lemon featuring Rihanna
3. Voilà featuring Gucci Mane and Wale
4. 1000 featuring Future
5. Don't Don't Do It featuring Kendrick Lamar
6. Kites featuring Kendrick Lamar and M.I.A.
7. ESP
8. Lightning Fire Magic Prayer
9. Rollinem 7’s featuring André 3000
10. Lifting You featuring Ed Sheeran
11. Secret Life of Tigers

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*silence*

featuring Ed Sheeran

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Yeah, the level of hype is abysmal for such a big act (well, at least considering Pharrell).
At first I thought it was about an album planned for next year or something. But a Care-o-Meter zero within a week of its release is... surprising !

Although if 'Kites' is a cover of this then I'm interested.

rihanna is good on 'lemon'

This will at least be fun for hearing the guest stars on tempos/feels that they usually don't deal with

pharrell said with a straight face that sheeran is this generation's joni mitchell. needless to say i don't really trust his aesthetics anymore

i love lemon, yeah

Harsh but fair comment on this generation imo

Whoa

I love Lemon but it sounds half-sketched... like they’re not sure on what to do with the track in the first minute or so before Rihanna comes in.

dunno man, once Rihanna comes in it's on, so think it works

Harsh but fair comment on this generation imo

Eheh. agreed !
Also that kind of comments is always stupid but doesn't necessarily impact the quality of the music made : I remember Daft Punk saying something like Pharrell being up there with Curtis Mayfield circa RAM...

Something a bit depressing about the tracklist really, when you think about how central they used to be to both hip-hop and R&B and this is them collaborating with a load of artists they've never really been associated with (except Gucci and Kendrick, a bit). It just underlines how peripheral they are.

Also I can't imagine anything with both Future and Pharrell working without one or both of them sounding awkward or corny as hell.

Oh wait, I just remembered that 'Move That Dope' exists, guess it's Pharrell who gets to be the awkward and corny one.

pharrell said with a straight face that sheeran is this generation's joni Mitchell

brb just off to purchase shotgun

Well, concerning the guests, they all seem coherent with N.E.R.D to me... except for Sheeran, of course !

I listened to "Lemon" and "1000" yesterday.
The Rihanna track is pretty cool. Not great but cool.
"1000" I might too sure. Seems a bit of a mess with some groovy parts.

the three new songs they did for the Spongebob movie a couple of years ago were pretty strong I thought https://youtu.be/a7XvCvmbEGI

The album is out on Spotify !

Apple Music too

i fell really hard for fly or die in high school so i'll always give a new n.e.r.d album a shot

and immediately "deep down body thurst" sounds extremely like a n.e.r.d song. i like it a lot

I like the just-Kendrick collab, but the one with MIA is sadly unlistenable

this is about 50 percent weird and good and 50 percent underwritten and annoying. so, another n.e.r.d album

Ha this album feels like a mess but still, good for them? Maybe it'll inspire some kids to make better weirdo music.

my favorite songs are the ones without guests lol

fuuuuuck the andré song

lol yes it's very bad

anyway, great excuse to revisit fly or die, a record enjoyed probably only by me and tyler the creator

ok kid cudi too

this is way weirder than I thought it would be, it sounded like a mess on first listen, too much ideas going on.

Every song has something cool going on but then it goes on for too long or shifts to a mood breaker... like for example the second half of Lightning Fire Magic Prayer has a great beat finally in place but then they slow it down into some slow, weird synth jerk off. They kind of do this in every song, take two very disparate moods (from frantic to meandering) and place them one against the other. I don't think it works tbh but need to listen to ir further.

Hum. After one listen this is pretty bad. The only ok track might be the Rhihanna one. The rest is barely listenable.

this album is dope cause it sounds like Clones II

So people lit this? The ri feature is the ripest for a 15 min jam

Cut out all the neptunes only tracks and this album is way better. The anti trump one about the wall is so god awful