Us here at KOTB got our hands on Kid Cud’s debut album “Man on the Moon: The End Of Day”. After listening to it multiple times I think we all agree when we say this is one of the most amazing albums musically, lyrically, and emotionally that we have heard in awhile. The album plays out as a movie with five acts each one following the concept of Cudi being asleep in a dream/nightmare mind state. The album itself is very dark, even the leadoff single “Day N Nite” once listened to thoroughly will emotionally speak to you. The album starts off with the slow mood setting song “In My Dreams” where Cudi basically welcomes you to his dream world which to him is the perfect place where anything and everything can happen. Following along with the story is easy and putting Common as the narrator only adds to it. The first “nightmare” that Cudi has in his sequence of dreams is the song “Solo Dolo”, this song actually puts you in that state of mind, you can feel the emotion and at some points I was actually a bit haunted. When that part in “Sky Might Fall” came up “ Awesome sound/ So Profound/ When It … / Ita Grip You/” as corny as it may sound it actually will grip you. Songs like “My World”, “Alive”, and “Cudi Zone” have these amazing choruses that feel just epic and they are all so differently constructed you won’t ever get bored of any of these songs. Some of my personal favorites off the album are “Pursuit Of Happiness” and “Up Up And Away”. This is definitely worth listening to , it is purely unique/individualistic good music with good soul to it, none of that over saturated radio music you hear. This is what music should be. Album Rating : 9.5/10
(I think it could have been a bit longer)
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