Travis Scott Astroworld Double Vinyl LP 2018
He was a gawky teenager from the Texas suburbs who flubbed interviews and wore snapbacks, but when Kanye West first saw Travis Scott’s home-made video for his self-released single Lights (Lovesick) he invited him to the studio to work on Cruel Summer immediately. A year later, the 2013 sloppy mescaline-trip mixtape Owl Pharaoh foreshadowed him as one of hip hop’s visionaries. And within four more years, he was riding a giant animatronic eagle through the air at arenas with a blazing stage presence that even his tour mate Kendrick Lamar faced difficulty following. His third studio album, Astroworld, feels like the grand opening of a vision that took a half-decade to perfect, still using the same psychedelic synth warps, diamond-cut drums, and reptilian hooks that initially skyrocketed him to stardom. (Drowned in Sound)
Tracklisting
A1 Stargazing
A2 Carousel
A3 Sicko Mode
B1 R.I.P Screw
B2 Stop Trying To Be God
B3 No Bystanders
B4 Skeletons
C1 Wake Up
C2 5% Tint
C3 NC-17
C4 Astrothunder
C5 Yosemite
D1 Can’t Say
D2 Who? What!
D3 Butterfly Effect
D4 Houstonfornication
D5 Coffee Bean
Travis Scott discography
Studio albums
Rodeo (2015)
Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight (2016)
Astroworld (2018)
Utopia
Astroworld received widespread acclaim and performed well commercially, debuting atop the US Billboard 200 with 537,000 album-equivalent units, of which 270,000 were pure sales. It was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It won Album of the Year at the 2019 BET Hip Hop Awards. The album was named one of the best albums of 2018 and the decade by several publications.