Album reviews

GOSPEL/HIP HOP

Kanye West: Jesus Is King (GOOD/Def Jam)

Nine albums in and Kanye West continues to befuddle his audience with a Christian rap album that lasts a mere 27 minutes. While it self-references albums such as 2010’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and 2016’s The Life of Pablo – and is, therefore, not a huge departure, sonically – it is nevertheless a far quieter work than we have to come to ...