REVIEW: Post Malone’s fifth album ‘Austin,’ out this Friday, is another mix of unmitigated anguish and unambiguous pop plays.
. Across four wildly successful, algorithm-swallowing LPs, he has wrangled Ozzy Ozbourne, Fleet Foxes and Father John Misty into his signature post-genre gumbo, equal parts mumble-rap and groan-rock, pickup-country and minivan-funk. The recipe works: he has sold a zillion albums and earned 10 Grammy nominations. , which takes its name after the one on Post’s birth certificate. This suggests a more naked release, with the honesty and vulnerability of the rock music he has long revered.
His voice — capable of arena-rock roars and tender falsettos but more often wandering between these poles, seething and uncertain — has never sounded better or more purposeful than it does here. It shakes like a wounded animal that might still bite your hand off. is Post’s guitar record, it’s not his rock record.
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