Keeping up with Kanye West over the past few months has been kind of exhausting. In April, he trolled fans with a track that contained the lyrics “poopy-di-scoop”. Later that month, he posted a photograph of a Make America Great Again hat signed by the President. Early May, he love-bombed Trump on Twitter – “we are both dragon energy, We are brothers” – angering and upsetting many of his fans. He topped it all off that month in an interview with TMZ Live when he said that slavery “sounds like a choice”. When he announced a new release was imminent, one wondered if it would be the first alt-right rap album.

Until last night, it looked like Kanye was cancelled, so egregious were his recent outbursts. But Kanye is Kanye. His eighth album premiered in the mountains of Jackson Hole, Wyoming last night, with a star-studded audience, including Kanye and wife Kim Kardashian as well as 2Chainz, Nas, Ty Dolla $ign, Pusha T, Kid Cudi and others. The seven tracks were introduced by Chris Rock and live-streamed, though those who weren’t there had to wait until Friday afternoon to hear it properly.

Ye is Kanye’s on the couch album. The first couple of minutes of opening track, I Thought About Killing You, is spoken word. He talks of suicidal thoughts and confesses to thinking “really bad things, really, really bad things” over a treated, pretty backing vocal, before lurching into a darker, Danny Brown-esque coda propelled by a sample of a woman screaming.