Kanye West – Eyes Closed

(Untagged rip and artwork thanks to Kanye To The forums)

Another track left on the MBDTF cutting floor finds its way onto the net. Apparently this is going to end up on the forthcoming Snoop Dogg album, Doggumentary, though I can’t really hear it. If anything, the bleeping Jimmy Spicer sample gives it more of a 808s vibe to than any of the decadent maximalism we’ve come accustomed to with Kanye of late.

Probably best left off MBDTF despite evidentially being born from the same sessions – lyrically it’d probably fit quite nicely somewhere in the album’s tail end – but, like most of the curios and G.O.O.D Friday tracks that Ye’s flooded us with over the past few months, it’s still more than worth your time.

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MP3: Kanye West – Eyes Closed

The Jet Age Of Tomorrow – Lunchbox (feat. Vince Staples & JQ)

Jet Age Of Tomorrow is another facet of the sprawling, seemingly omnipresent, Odd Future collective. As the title and album art suggests, Journey To The 5th Echelon is a pretty spacey, jazzy affair. More Sa-Ra than Slim Shady – Om’Mas Keith from the former even makes an appearance on ‘The Finer Things’ – and whilst Tyler and company haven’t suddenly turned into nice guys talking about inter-dimensional travel and ‘freein’ yo mind’ between tokes, they sound just at home over the intergalactic atmospherics and space funk beats as they do over clasutrophobic boom-bap and slasher movie synths. Turns out they’re all maddeningly versatile as well as tirelessly prolific.

The album dropped on New Year’s Eve, so fell in that award corridor after 2010 is done and 2011 is yet to get started which doesn’t help in conjuction with the overwhelming amount of stuff these guys put out, but it’s definitely worth a listen. Check out a couple of tracks below and download the whole thing by clicking the image or here.

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MP3: The Jet Age Of Tomorrow – Lunchbox (feat. Vince Staples & JQ)