The Blueprint: Vinyl LP Beverly Glenn-Copeland On the 28th October

On the 28th October

They built a studio inside and then they made music and lived off pots of coffee and chili and cases of Miller High Life as they played guitars

Themes of isolation and collapse bleed into this album

Adam Cohen

The Blueprint: Vinyl LP Beverly Glenn-Copeland On the 28th OctoberThe Blueprint may be Jay Z's most captivating record since Reasonable Doubt, but its predictably detached mood reflects the master hustler's superior ability to trick out lackluster subject matter with lyrical complexity and brief flashes of manufactured introspection. The Blueprint, a solid mix of preprogrammed radio hits ("Izzo," "Girls, Girls, Girls") and better than average mid tempo compositions ("Never Change," "Song Cry"), confirms the Brooklyn