With every bands release, they sound and style tend to change. If you take BYP fist album, and compare it to the new "the beginning". There simply isn't any comparison. They are basically two different genre's. So I'm digging on the new album, although not ground breaking, it sounds like a cleaner version of the last album "the end", which sounded like very experimental, and overuse of production tech. This new product, sounds like they stuck to the old ways of "less is more". They used more sampling is this album on almost every track, and well used I might say, except for the first track "the time" which used a dirty dancing track, it got old quick. On to fun tracks like the Slick Rick sampled "light up the night", and the KC and sunshine band sampled "Love you long time" followed by the VERY electric "Xoxoxo" and "Someday". Fast forward to "Fashion Beats" and "Don't stop the party" which is sure to fill a few dance floors. The rest of the tracks are more of the same. Great album to bounce your head and behind to. Worth the wait and dough.