The Legend of Ye

The Legend of Ye is the debut studio album by American experimental band, Powell Adobe, released on December 21, 2018. The album was recorded entirely by using Smule Autorap, a mobile app for iOS and Android. The album has 6 tracks, 3 of which are singles, the singles are Where Are My Fingers?, They're Dead, and Cows Are Dead. The album features songs recorded before andrewnow & Ca$ho ever knew they were gonna make a band.

The album began production in May of 2018, just before the band was formed, during this month they had recorded the tracks Where Are Your Fingers?, Plane Ride, and Constipated. After recording tracks that sounded good, they had decided to form the band. On December 20th, they had finished the album, and they released 1 day later, on the 21st, on SoundCloud. Ca$ho came up with the name of the album, as a reference to American rapper, Kanye West, who goes by the name "Ye", the band likely did this because they say that Kanye West is a big inspiration to Powell Adobe. You can hear the naming process of the album in the track Oops... Accidentally put this in our album.. Sorry. which is a song recorded and released on accident, the song features audio of them naming the album, where you can hear Ca$ho come up with the album name.

On March 10, 2019, the album was released on Bandcamp.

The compilation album, Touch the Buglight features 2 unreleased tracks recorded during the production of The Legend of Ye.

Lyrical themes
A lot of the lyrics on the album are about death, for an example, the song They're Dead is about the many ways people can die. The song Cows Are Dead is about the death of all cows, causing cows to go extinct. Plane Ride is about the death of multiple people, as a plane crashes.

Other lyrical themes include poop, as heard in tracks like Constipated and Plane Ride.

andrewnow has said that The Legend of Ye is a "very dark, and sad, yet meaningful album. I feel like we could solve all the worlds' problems if everyone just listened to the lyrics of this album".

Artwork
The album art shows a pencil on a piece of paper writing about "The Legend of Ye", possibly meaning the person writing was writing a story about someone named Ye (based on Kanye West).

On Bandcamp, the album artwork had a few unintentional errors. It was more zoomed in compared to the one on SoundCloud, and near the bottom of the paper, half of one of the lines is missing.

Reception
The album received many negative reviews from critics, GatorCritic saying "It's mainly just fart noises and poop sounds". RumbleMusic has said "Most of it barely even passes as music. This album is not enjoyable, it's just lazily made and stupid"

Track listing

 * 1) Where Are Your Fingers?
 * 2) Plane Ride
 * 3) Constipated
 * 4) They're Dead
 * 5) Cows Are Dead
 * 6) Oops... Accidentally put this in our album.. Sorry.

Personnel

 * andrewnow – lead vocals, backing vocals, album art
 * Ca$ho – lead vocals