The much-anticipated new album - EMINEM RECOVERY
On Recovery, his seventh major label studio album, EMINEM has reached out to an exciting list of first-time collaborators, including DJ Khalil, Just Blaze, Jim Jonsin and Boi-1da, among others.
EMINEM releases Recovery just over a year after his last album, 2009's Relapse. Relapse put the cap on an impressive ten years of recorded output, and contributed to EMINEM being the biggest selling artist of 2000-2009. In recognition of this, Neilsen SoundScan named him their Artist of the Decade. Relapse entered the charts at #1 and, at nearly double platinum, was the best selling rap album of last year. It also earned EMINEM his 11th Grammy award, winning in the Best Rap Album category. Relapse's first single, "Crack A Bottle" from EMINEM, Dr. Dre and 50 Cent, soared to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (Eminem's second #1 after 2002's "Lose Yourself") and set a SoundScan record at the time of its release for opening week download sales (418,000). The album also spun off two other hits; the Top 10 "We Made You" and Top 20 "Beautiful."
"I had originally planned for Relapse 2 to come out last year," remarked EMINEM. "But as I kept recording and working with new producers, the idea of a sequel to Relapse started to make less and less sense to me, and I wanted to make a completely new album. The music on Recovery came out very different from Relapse, and I think it deserves its own title."
EMINEM has sold more than 78,000,000 albums worldwide. After 1999's quadruple platinum The Slim Shady LP, The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) and The Eminem Show (2002) became two of the Top 5 best selling albums of the 2000s, with approximately 10,000,000 copies of each sold in the U.S. alone. 2004's Grammy-nominated Encore reached #1 and was certified quadruple platinum. The #1, double platinum, 2005 greatest hits collection Curtain Call: The Hits and #2, platinum, 2006 various artists compilation Eminem Presents: The Re-Up followed. read more..
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Eminem's Recovery by Tommy Morais
The beginning of this review is probably the best time to let you know that I am not a fan of rap music at all (not that I hate it); in fact I'm more of rock n roll/metal type of guy. However I believe that some artist are on a higher level than any of the musical genres and can be appreciated by just about anyone regardless of which genre (s) they are into. I would consider Eminem in this category, for whatever reason even if I am not into rap music I always liked Eminem and his music can appeal to me.
Now that I've said that, lets move on to Eminem's new album, Recovery. Detroit rapper Marshal Matters III achieved major popularity with releases such as The Marshal Matters LP (2000) and The Eminem Show (2002). After 2004's Encore Em decided that perhaps it was time to quit and after a greatest hits album in 2005, Curtain Call : The Hits, he moved on to other things such as producing other artists. Fast forward to 2009 when Eminem makes his return to music with his first album in close to five years, Relapse. Relapse despite some harsh reviews seemed to be generally well received (currently has an average rating of 4 stars here on amazon) and was a success selling close to 5 million copies, Eminem was back. Eminem revealed that he wanted to release two albums in 2009 namely Relapse and Relapse 2, but as time went on he started thinking that the idea of a second part to Relapse made less and less sense to him and that he wanted his next album to be different. So in December 2009 he released Relapse: Refill a re-release of Relapse with an added disc of 7 new songs and moved on. It's been clear that Em was dealing with deep personal problems these past few years and he admits that Recovery is about just that, his recovery and how it does get better.
At first I was deceived that Em was not going to release the second part to Relapse as initially planned but I was happy to learn about his new album due in 2010, Recovery, and that it was going to be a very different album. I can safely say that Recover is much stronger than Relapse and that now Eminem is really, really back. To me Recovery is Em's best album since at least The Eminem Show, it's definitely one of his best albums. Recovery is probably also his most accessible seeing how it still has the rap rhythms and edge yet it also has a more current pop sound that blends very well and doesn't take away any of the album's musical value. It's also a much more personal album which is why I enjoyed it so much, you know by reading the lyrics and hearing the songs that Em has been in a dark place and that he's finally out, he's surprisingly honest and reflective.
I won't go trough the album song by song, others have already done that. Thought I must say some of my favorite are Cold Wind Blows (an excellent opener in the vein of his older albums), WTP (very catchy what can I say?), Going Trough Changes (having Ozzy sampled for the chorus was an excellent idea, it worked out great, an excellent personal song that explains it all), Not Afraid (It was a good choice for a single, it's definitely poppier than a lot of his past material but it has a very good message) and Love The Way You Lie. I don't like every single song on the album but its pretty close! Recovery is excellent.
The Eminem we find on Recovery is not the same angry young man who made The Marshal Matters LP and he is not the same man who made Relapse just last year, he's changed but in a very good way. I was particularly surprised to hear Em apologizing in his lyrics, apologizing for his last album Relapse (thought I must say that I somewhat enjoyed it), to Little Wayne for some unflattering comments about him and he even says he will never do a song with an accent (remember A** Like That from Encore?). I must say Recovery deserves every praise it gets because it's really an amazing album, if you are or have ever been a fan you should own this already! 5 stars all the way.
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