Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Def Jam) *****
Andy Gill, The Independent, 19 November 2010
RECORDED IN HAWAII at a rumoured cost of some $3 million, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is one of pop's gaudiest, most grandiose efforts of recent years, a no-holds-barred musical extravaganza in which any notion of good taste is abandoned at the door.
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