utopia review

utopia by a$ap rocky's twin

7/10

favorite tracks: hyaena, thank god, my eyes, sirens, meltdown, topia twins, lost forever, telekinesis

worst tracks: parasail, looove

After about a year, I have mixed feelings about how this aged.

Everyone and their mother knows that this is inspired by yeezus, and like it, it screams experimental and volatile energy. For once, it's kinda hard to pinpoint characteristics of this album that doesn't encompass every song on here because of how inconsistent this is, so I'll go through each song one by one (@Goosefacekillah style). Travis's vocals for the most part aren't anything crazy, unless otherwise noted, his autotuned and adlib-filled performances get a 6/10 from me.

HYAENA: medieval ass beat, but it goes hard. Verses are pretty good, I like the intro and outro, but the choruses aren't growing on me the best. Still good though, the mixing of the production makes this song stand out.

THANK GOD: again, mixing on the production is the highlight of this track. The sudden 808s works well with the eery vibe. KayCyy on the chorus, does alright if you look past the autotune from him. Beat switch is the second best on the album, apparently he put his daughter in the second half.

MODERN JAM: basic and unimaginative production, teezo was great for the most part until the 'bounce baby' part of his performance. Makes me think this song was rushed and not even finished.

MY EYES: unusual first beat, sounds like a lullaby. Not a fan of the first part's vocals either, but I came around them now. Hot take: I liked Sampha's subtle feature on this more than the beat switch. I'd rather listen to Sampha with a complete performance on the first beat than Travis on the second beat, fight me. Oh yeah, amazing beat transition, production on the second part is full of energy and vibrance, but the travis verse on it is sorta underwhelming with his flow. Great song still.

GOD'S COUNTRY: not a fan of the 'lalala' beat. Nothing really wows me on this song.

SIRENS: Nice intro, innovative beat. the look out adlibs throws me off a little, but everything works well. outro did NOT age well (reminder: drake does the skit).

MELTDOWN: drake's verse didn't age well either, y'know that one line about melting pharrell's chain? Anyways, nice beat switch ups, travis's performance works very nice for production that sounds like it was catered to something only drake would be on.

FE!N: overrated af. I love the wonky club-sounding beat, and travis does great on his verse, but carti's chorus and verse is batshit stupid.

DELRESTO: I've heard people saying this song sounds like it was meant for renaissance, I guess I can see that. Either way, doesn't fit with this album, pretty bad as a travis song, but decent as a beyonce song.

I KNOW ?: travis's worst vocal performance, and it's the one without noticeable autotune for the chorus lmao. He sounds like he has literally no energy for a good chunk of it, and it kinda ruins the song for me despite the nice beat with the piano and all that.

TOPIA TWINS: every feature here does their job nice, nothing really wrong with this. Just don't look at the music vid for this, it's more funny than horny (e.g. 2:13 on the yt vid)

CIRCUS MAXIMUS: haven't listened to this song after one time, travis screaming during the weekend's feature made me hate it.

PARASAIL: someone tell travis to never do interludes/skit again, this shit was fucking atrocious. Yung Lean can't sing, dave chapelle shouldn't be on a travis album of all things, and the basic guitars for the production don't mix well.

SKITZO: great first part, I like the beat and both travis and young thug's verse on it. Only goes down from ther