Touch the sky with this great album! (Late Registration - Kanye West)

Member Name: katykicker

Product:	Late Registration - Kanye West
Date:	31/12/08 (87 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Very good album, lots of tracks

Disadvantages: Bring Me Down (featuring Brandy) - dont like it at all

This album "Late Registration" was released in 2005 by Kanye West.

It features the singles Touch The Sky, Heard 'Em Say, Gold Digger & Diamonds From Sierra Leone.

Here I will review each of the songs on the album (except the skits).

Heard 'Em Say - Fantastic song featuring Adam Levine from Maroon 5 with an absolutely fantastic piano backing which is just so easy to listen to.

Touch The Sky - This is a very loud, in your face song which makes you want to jump up and dance. Great club favourite!

Gold Digger - This features Jamie Foxx and was released as a single. The song has a very pumping, funky beat and I dare you to try not to sing along! Very catchy indeed.

Drive Slow - This has quite a chilled vibe and sings about growing up and living in the hood. This also has excellent instrumental sections, very listenable indeed.

My Way Home - This has quite an old feel to it and is all about leaving and nobody noticing. (Wouldn't that be nice once in a while!)

Crack Music - A very gospel/ghetto feel to this song.

Roses - This is quiet an emotional song singing about a relative of Kanye who is dangerously ill in hospital and hes singing about how life is when you are a celebrity.

Bring Me Down - This song features Brandy and is probably my least favourite of the album although it is still good. I just feel like the song is really monopolised by all of Brandys ooooh and aaaahhhhhh singing which really isn't my style at all. It does have a very good instrument section behind it though which makes it a bareable song.

Addiction - This is one of my favourite songs from the album, a very soul soothing song with brilliant vocals. Still a good song to move to though.

Diamonds from Sierra Leone - This is a song singing about the tragedy of the blood diamonds in Sierra Leone and the innocent people who risk life and limb for the diamonds to try and secure a better future. A very powerful song with a great beat.

We Major - This is quite a boring repetitive song which has some rather rude lyrics!

Hey Mama - This song was obviously wrote long before Kanye's Mother passed away (which she sadly has now) and I think that makes the song all the more poignant. Very catchy song that I find myself humming lots even after I have finished listening to it.

Celebration - This is a very quiet song (compared to the rest of the album at least!) and has some rather annoying ba da ba daaaaas in the background but if you can ignore them the song isn't a dud.

Gone - This is another great piano style song which is very singable and the backing music would probably be fairly easy to have a crack at if you can play piano.

Late - This song has a very 80s feel to it if you ask me, lots of chipmunk style speeded up music (just think of Akon and you'll know what I mean) not my favourite but not terrible either. Not a bad end to the album.

Overall I find the whole album very listenable and my least favourite song is Bring Me Down (featuring Brandy) as I don't feel it is heading in the same direction as the rest of the album.

I like this album the most from Kanye West as he doesn't seem to have so much self assurance and the arrogance he seems to have developed lately.

Definitely a good buy :)

You can also find this review on ciao.co.uk under the same title, username katyeverett :)

Summary: Great buy!