Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven
| Kid Cudi
Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven
Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven is the fifth studio album by American recording artist Kid Cudi. The album was released on December 4, 2015, through Republic Records and Cudi's Wicked Awesome Records imprint. The album is a complete departure from his previous projects, excluding WZRD, a 2012 collaborative effort which was his first venture into rock music. Inspired by the 1990s indie music scene, Cudi included commissioned skits featuring Mike Judge voicing the titular characters of his '90s animated sitcom, Beavis and Butt-Head. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
While his diehard fans await his long-delayed Man on the Moon III*,* Kid Cudi opted instead to release a 90-minute, double-disc rock album. Unfiltered, unpolished, and uncomfortable, the album is a failure, and not even a noble one.
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Complex
Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven is ultimately messy, challenging, and rough around the edges (perhaps more so than anything Scott has ever released), but there’s also something about it that’s admirably unique.
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Billboard
An uncomfortably internal album that's a pleasurable listen. It's not as gleefully nihilistic as Future, but comes across just as revelatory.
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Consequence of Sound
this album feels like a few good ideas mired in a mess of half-formed sketches, rough recordings, and simple cliches. But damn if they aren’t presented with the utmost passion and intensity.
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Hip Hop DX
No one will debate the musical talent of Kid Cudi, but if he is going to continue to try and stretch the boundaries of his sound he will have to be methodical with the experimentation.
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The Needle Drop
Kid Cudi loses his mind.
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Hot New Hip Hop
Cudi's latest offer is a controversial move into rock territory; is it a bold gesture or a misguided blunder?
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The Young Folks
It’s truly dreadful, sort of. It’s pretty much empty; for the most part. And lastly the album is easily forgettable.
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Noisey
Kid Cudi's new album joins a quirky pantheon of art blurring the line between terrible and sublime.
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Sputnik
Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven is weird. Really weird. Honestly it's one of the biggest musical anomalies to come out of a mainstream artist since Kid A and a massive 180° from Kid Cudi's early work.
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Daily Bruin
“Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven” signals a bold new direction for Kid Cudi and, while his first solo venture into the rock genre falls flat, to deliver a rock and roll album to a hip-hop fan base takes courage.
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All Music
Sounding like his 2012 rap-rock album/project WZRD but without the polish, Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven finds Cleveland rapper Kid Cudi becoming Cleveland rocker Kid Cudi via the garage
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Stereo Champions
Speedin Bullet to Heaven is an all-acoustic (punk rock) album. There are no beats, there is no bass. For 26 songs, you will hear nothing but guitar riffs, live percussion, and Cudi singing like he listened to nothing but the store playlist at Hop Topic.
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RemezcLA
While Cudi’s ambition in making this album – perhaps at the expense of some of his diehard fans – is laudable, the project is more noteworthy for its noble intentions than its actual execution.
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Ear Buddy
That this album sounds terrible, is terribly written, and could prove to be dangerous to be experienced by certain members of the population is more than enough to earn my disdain and ire.
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Gig Soup
‘Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven’ is different to put it one way. Cudi doesn’t quite seem to have got the grasp of the new style he’s trying. A little too long, not helped at all by the inclusion of several songs only 2 minutes long. Also the long excerpts from Beavis and Butthead dialogues make Cudi seem all over the place in this album.
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The Urban Buzz
Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven sounds like it was recorded in some record shop that doubles as a venue. Perhaps it would be acceptable as a side project but absolutely not for a feature album.
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The West Review
Unfortunately, Speedin’ Bullet To Heaven is exactly what I knew it would be; a dreary experimental bore built on twangs of electric guitar, nowhere production, and spiritless vocal accompaniment.
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The Knockturnal
Regardless of whatever genre Scott thinks he’s doing, it’s just bad. The album is painful, unlistenable, and as I said earlier, legitimately made me feel sick.
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