Music Review: Drake’s More Life doesn’t know what the hell it wants to be, which makes it great

Published: March 23, 2017

Drake has always been an album artist. That’s what was sort of surprising about the four-album run he made from 2009’s So Far Gone EP to 2013’s Nothing Was The Same: Each release held together marvelously, one long, lush production cut into an almost narrative sequence of hits, unlikely guest spots, and thoughtful deep-album cuts. Drake’s pair of 2015 mixtapes never quite read as tapes either—they were fussy and thoughtful, from the man-cave melancholia of If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late to the careful cohesion of his split with Future. Even last year’s weirdly maligned Views, which featured some of the artist’s most shimmering pop music, felt like a conscious statement. He stays in the popular consciousness via carefully leaked one-off tracks and manipulation of his own public image, but he shifts culture via his records.

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