While a departure from Post Malone’s usual rapper style, “F-1 Trillion,” his largely anticipated country album, feels like a correct choice and a welcome one.
Malone has mentioned the idea of doing a country album since 2022, and it’s quite crazy Post Malone fans got it and more. Malone ultimately delivers a legitimate country album in a nice package. With a rare-to-see large number of featured artists, a wide variety of country song styles that give a lot of options for country music listeners and artists selections that help elevate the album to another level.
“F1-Trillion” starts with song called “Wrong Ones” that features Tim McGraw. It’s an upbeat rock country song and gives the album a nice start. After that you will hear a impressive list of famous country singers, including Hank Williams Jr, Morgan Wallen, Blake Shelton, Dolly Parton, Brad Paisly, Luke Combs, Lainey Wilson and Chris Stapleton.
“The Long Bed Edition” acts as a nice inclusion and serves its purpose well. Malone almost delivers two albums in these releases and gives you a version with just himself (mostly) and a version with (mostly) other people you may be interested in hearing collaborate with Malone. It’s a great idea that allows the most people to find and enjoy the album.
The questions I had with this album were its lack of hits in a 27-song package. While “I had Some Help and “Pour Me A Drink” are charting hits, it’s hard to find others that feel near that level. However, there is a large list of songs I find very solid and something I would save to my main playlist.
Some of these solid songs are “Have a Heart” (Parton), “Hide my Gun” (Feat Hardy), ”Wrong Ones,” “Losers” and “What Don’t Belong to Me.” While I don’t have a favorite yet, I’m sure with more listens and replays, I will soon find mine. That is also the thing here, Post Malone gives you a ton a good variety with sub genres of country that it’s hard to choose your pick. On one hand he has sadder country songs, upbeat country songs, traditional-style country songs, pop country songs, and rock country songs. It’s a lot to take in. At a whooping one hour and 27 minutes for the Long Bed Version, it’s enough content to last Posty fans through the year for sure.
Another thing I have to knock it for is not having a consistent identity. While the album plays well, it’s maybe tough to organize such a huge album. The songs are stylistically different from each other so It’s hard to predict what type of song you will hear next. I find it it’s hard to get too excited for a song until the middle or end when you realize it’s one worth hitting save. Although this album’s highpoints and choices heavily outweigh the two gripes, it would make it a nice addition to anyone who’s a fan of country music and Post Malone.
At press time the album’s stats have not been updated into Billboard’s charts. Music videos and merch have already been released, with tickets for tour dates on sale already. Unfortunately, Malone is not performing in Dallas. You never know, however, if he might add a surprise date later down the road for fall.
Malone has a tour stop scheduled for Austin on Oct. 26 and 27 before ending his tour in Nashville.
Grade: B
