Eminem - Revival (2017) [Official Digital Download]

As Slim Shady fans prepare for Revival Eminem amplified the excitement to his highly anticipated ninth studio album with the brash track "Untouchable," which you can read all the cryptic lyrics decoded here. Em opened his official online store to fans who want to pick up merchandise and support the Detroit native ahead of the 19-track project's release date with a plethora of options. Items for purchase range from Shady-engraved dog tags, steel-printed "Walk On Water" lyrics hand-written by Em, a black t-shirt or hoodie with a graphic featuring the 45-year-old taking aim at his detractors. All purchases come with a digital or CD version of Revival, which is also available as a lithograph. The most expensive option for Stans to pre-order contains a bundle encompassing the previously mentioned dog tag and "Walk On Water" steel print, in addition to an exclusive autographed version of Revival, which will run you $500 in total for the package deal.

Production-wise, Revival is a trainwreck. If Eminem thinks his verbal box of tricks can overcome the weakness of any backing track, his recent albums have demonstrated otherwise. Revival begins with the Beyoncé-featuring Walk on Water, a song as thrilling as shopping for shower curtains – but were it put at the end of this exhausting LP it would at least provide some sweet respite. Its beat is relatively subtle, lacks bombast and doesn’t have you questioning the sanity of all involved. Much worse are the negligible scribblings of frequent collaborator Alex da Kid, on studio speed-dial for album filler, or the decision to flip Joan Jett for the risible Remind Me. Rick Rubin – the man behind 99 Problems, Run DMC’s Walk This Way and Johnny Cash’s take on Hurt – produced the latter.

Early fans have long since given up on Eminem, which is probably of zero importance to him, but if you played this album to them they’d be baffled. Eminem is clearly a rapper, but there’s hardly a trace of hip-hop here. The guests – Alicia Keys, Pink, Ed Sheeran, Beyoncé – speak to pop-rap stadium-packing ambitions, as does the familiar song structure. We start off slow, he gets angrier, he explodes in incandescent rage, an anthemic vocal hook comes in. Repeat, for 77 minutes.

Tracklist:

01. Walk On Water (feat. Beyoncé)
02. Believe
03. Chloraseptic (feat. PHRESHER)
04. Untouchable
05. River (feat. Ed Sheeran)
06. Remind Me (Intro)
07. Remind Me
08. Revival (Interlude)
09. Like Home (feat. Alicia Keys)
10. Bad Husband (feat. X Ambassadors)
11. Tragic Endings (feat. Skylar Grey)
12. Framed
13. Nowhere Fast (feat. Kehlani)
14. Heat
15. Offended
16. Need Me (feat. P!nk)
17. In Your Head
18. Castle
19. Arose



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