Recently it’s seemed that Kanye West has become more notorious for baiting Taylor Swift (and being an interminable source of controversial soundbites) than for his, genuinely groundbreaking, music. His fifth album will change all that. After the relative minimalism of 808s and Heartbreak, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is an incredibly imaginative aural attack, capable of decimating his peers’ efforts at 20 paces. Mixing original licks with inventive samples, and featuring cameos from stars as disparate as Jay-Z and Bon Iver, West gleefully refuses to let boundaries of genre confine him. Probably the best mainstream hip-hop album of 2010, one of the biggest egos in hip-hop has surpassed his own hype.