Following its shock launch on the 2025 Met Gala final week, evaluations for André 3000’s newest mission 7 piano sketches are rolling in, and jazz pianist Matthew Shipp is amongst those that isn’t notably impressed. The avant-jazz composer dropped in on Fb to deride the album as “full and utter crap.”
Right here’s only a brief excerpt from Shipp’s expletive embellished put up: “I believe it’s full and utter crap -horrific-god terrible insipidly wretched nothing . oh my fucking god that is some atrocious shite — is he some kind of fucking asshole ? is he an entire and utter dilletante [sic]? I may go into element about why every lower is stillborn –however why hassle –it doesn’t even deserve the eye of a critique it’s so dreadful .”
He described the mission as having “an absence of respect for the self-discipline,” and stated, “it’s miserable that this rubbish will get any consideration as a result of he has a reputation and fame.”
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In André 3000’s protection, he has defined that he by no means supposed to launch 7 Piano Sketches commerically and isn’t formally skilled as a pianist. “I can’t title the notes, keys, or chords I’m enjoying. I merely benefit from the sound and mechanics of piano enjoying,” he wrote on Instagram. The tracks have been recorded greater than a decade in the past on his iPhone whereas he lived in Texas along with his son.
