Album Review: Drake’s More Life
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Drake is on fire as an artist at the minute. Every album and every track he creates is always 10x better than the last and his new album follows this trend. Drake collabed with artists such as Kanye West, Skepta and 2 Chainz but the production team was arguably even more high profile. It included production giants like Frank Dukes, 40 and again, Kanye West. The album title, ‘More Life’refers to Jamaican slang, in which the expression means to wish someone well. The tracklist is as follows:
- Free Smoke
- No Long Talk (feat. Giggs)
- Passionfruit
- Jorja Interlude
- Get It Together (feat. Black Coffee & Jorja Smith)
- Madiba Riddim
- Blem
- 4422 (feat. Sampha)
- Gyalchester
- Skepta Interlude
- Portland (feat. Quavo & Travis Scott)
- Sacrifices (feat. 2 Chainz & Young Thug)
- Nothings Into Somethings
- Teenage Fever
- Kmt (feat. Giggs)
- Lose You
- Can’t Have Everything
- Glow (feat. Kanye West)
- Since Way Back (feat. PARTYNEXTDOOR)
- Fake Love
- Ice Melts
- Do Not Disturb
The entire album has a very Frank Ocean vibe to it, in the sense that it’s so coherent that you can barely tell that the next song is playing until a few seconds in. Frank Ocean’s albums favour the mixtape layout and Drake has followed suit, making the album more of an artwork than just a collection of songs. Between tracks are short audio commentaries from different speakers which makes it feel that you are in Drake’s mind and going through his thought process.
Drake released ‘Fake Love’ prior to his album to try and set the tone, but don’t be misled, the track doesn’t really give anything away about the other 21 songs – especially ‘Skepta Interlude’ which has a real grime feel.
Our favourite song on the album is ‘Passionfruit’. The beat is very fitting of Drake’s style and character; it’s hard hitting and powerful yet it doesn’t sound like anything he has ever done or would do. It starts with a high pitched, continuous bass with a repetitive, two-note violin chord and then switches to commentary of a guy saying he’s going to start the track again. Drake’s voice in the song is a lot softer and fluid than in his songs that are more in the style of rap but he still maintains his style lyrically. It’s a much more chilled song than the others and it feels much more of a classic soul or R&B song which really suits his voice.
This is hands down his best album so far and it is 100% worth a listen.