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Austin (2023)

Where the lyrics of Austin take you, and where it was really made.

Post Malone played guitar on every song of Austin, and its sound moved away from the hip-hop of his earlier albums.

Key places

Recording studio in Los Angeles (2023)

Recording site A&M Recording Studios — Austin was recorded at Henson Recording Studios in Los Angeles. The point marks the studio building itself. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Austin: fifth studio album by American musician Post Malone
• Released 28 July 2023 through Mercury and Republic Records
• Bonus version released five days later, including one new track
• Production handled by Malone, Andrew Watt, Louis Bell, Max Martin, and Rami Yacoub
• Four singles: "Chemical", "Mourning", "Overdrive", and "Enough Is Enough"
• Guitar-based pop, indie pop, and pop rock album
• Departs from the hip-hop and R&B-influenced sound of the predecessors
• Malone's first and only project without any guest appearances

Background

• Announced 15 May 2023 with an Instagram video
• Title is Malone's real first name
• Video hinted at a different artistic approach, possibly intensifying the sound of Twelve Carat Toothache (2022)
• Malone played guitar on every single song on the album
• He called the creation process a fun experience
• He described the outcome as his most challenging and rewarding music
• Same day, he announced the If Y'all Weren't Here, I'd Be Crying Tour to accompany the release
• The summer North American leg later became a world tour, running from 8 July to 3 December 2023

Recording

• Recorded at Henson Recording Studios in Los Angeles

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Disc 1

Disc 2

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Artist

Career

• Austin Richard Post, professionally known as Post Malone, is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer, and actor.
• His music blends pop, hip-hop, trap, country, R&B, and rock.
• He began his musical career in 2010 and gained mainstream recognition with the 2015 cloud rap single "White Iverson".
• He signed with Republic Records in 2015; his debut album Stoney (2016) produced the Diamond-certified single "Congratulations".
• His second album Beerbongs & Bentleys (2018) debuted atop the US Billboard 200 and produced Hot 100 number-one singles "Rockstar" and "Psycho".
• "Sunflower" with Swae Lee, from the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack, became the highest-certified song in RIAA history.
• Hollywood's Bleeding (2019) also debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.
• Twelve Carat Toothache (2022) and Austin (2023) both peaked at number two on the Billboard 200.
• In 2024 he topped the Hot 100 with a guest spot on Taylor Swift's "Fortnight" and his country pop single "I Had Some Help" with Morgan Wallen.
• His country music debut F-1 Trillion (2024) became his third number-one album on the Billboard 200.
• He has sold over 150 million records in the US according to the RIAA.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Metacritic: the album received a weighted average score of 66 based on 10 reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews
• AnyDecentMusic?: 5.5 out of 10, based on its assessment of the critical consensus
• AllMusic (Neil Z. Yeung): praised the album as melodic and heartfelt, saying it surprises at nearly every turn
• NME (Erica Campbell): said the shift from trap beats and hip-hop delivery to purer pop suits Malone well
• Clash (Robin Murray): described it as an album that dares to buck trends, and at its best genuinely moving
• Variety (Chris Willman): said the songs sound sobering on paper but play out breezily on record
• American Songwriter (Thomas Galindo): said the 17 new songs do not amount to a flawless masterpiece but show a Malone who knows he needs to turn things around
• Rolling Stone (Clayton Purdom): wrote that even if Austin is Post's guitar record, it is not his rock record, and found that plenty of it works
• Slant Magazine (Paul Attard): found little on the album hip-hop oriented, with tracks built on stadium-sized pop hooks that follow a simplistic pop structure
• Pitchfork (Brad Shoup): described it as Post at his strongest, raiding the entire pop toolkit
• Riff Magazine: wrote that the album was influenced by 80s and 90s alternative rock, which tended to slow down the middle of the album

Reappraisal

• Reappraisal of the album not found in the source

Records

• Billboard 200: debuted at number two in the first week, with 113,000 album-equivalent units, including 34,000 pure album sales
• Fifth top-five album on the chart for Malone, after all his previous studio albums reached the top five
• Total of 101.14 million on-demand streams of the album's songs

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The lead single, "Chemical", was released on 14 April 2023, ahead of the album.
• The fourth and final single, "Enough Is Enough", was sent to Italian contemporary hit radio on 8 September 2023.
• The album's title is Malone's real first name, which the Instagram announcement video pointed out.
• The release-day tour announcement grew into a world tour that ran until 3 December 2023.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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