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Friday, April 19
Kanye West's new album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, got a perfect 10.0 from Pitchfork, the first new album to reach such heights since Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. A little hometown advantage, maybe?