Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven | ||||
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Studio album by Kid Cudi | ||||
Released | December 4, 2015 | |||
Recorded | 2015 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Length | 91:22 | |||
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Metacritic | 44/100 |
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Consequence of Sound | D+ |
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Pitchfork Media | 4.0/10 |
The Plain Dealer | C– |
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 1990's indie music scene, Cudi included commissioned skits featuring Mike Judge voicing the title characters of his 90's animated sitcom, Beavis and Butt-Head.
Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven, described by Cudi as alternative music, is the follow-up to his 2014 digital release, Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon. Serving as a double disc effort, the album comes with 26 tracks in total, with the actual album on Side A containing 18, while Side B is composed of eight tracks, which are mostly demos and outtakes. The album, primarily produced by Cudi himself, was supported by two official singles, "Confused!" and the "Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven".
In support of the album, Kid Cudi embarked on a national concert tour, which he called "The Especial Tour". The album received mixed to negative reviews from critics and charted at number 36 on the US Billboard 200, becoming Cudi's lowest-charting album to date.
After the unexpected release of his fourth album Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon (2014), which Kid Cudi called a prelude to the third installment in the Man on the Moon series and "the bridge between INDICUD and MOTM3", it was believed his following album would be the long-awaited Man on the Moon III. However, in a January 2015 interview, at the Sundance Film Festival, Cudi expressed the possibility of releasing another album before the release of Man on the Moon III: