I should say though, that I definitely think this is Kanye's "Let it Be" ... Yes it's something new for him, but it's not an absolute game-changer. It's a comfortable album, with Kanye being Kanye, not trying to reinvent the wheel, but simply making a really fucking badass wheel that rolls super good
There's a line in the Pitchfork review that stuck out to me. It said something like "it sounds as if Kanye's is still furiously mixing the album and making changes even as it's playing through your headphones" ... This nails it. Because it does feel a bit all over the place. In terms of flow, it's somewhere between Cruel Summer and Yeezus, with these brief reprieves bringing a little bit of "Dropout" and "LR" back into the fray.
Or maybe it's Kanye's Abbey Road? Abbey Road sounds inconsistent as hell, like you're being slammed with a different song ever couple of seconds, even wen you're listening to a song that encompasses the entire second side! But Abbey Road had a bit of everything on it. Thrown at you with abandon, the Beatles just playing themselves instead of other characters for the first time in ages.
So I get the "sloppy" comments, and I get that it sounds unpolished... But again, what can we expect from Ye other than the unexpected? Who expected him to suddenly stop being an anal retentive mad scientist who spends a thousand hours on a single track? Not I. And yet that's what he did. And as Kanye fans. We should know better than to wish this sounded more like "old Kanye".... Though in all honestly it sounds more like MBDTF than anything else he's done.