Cold Visions is the seventh solo studio album by Swedish rapper Bladee, released on 23 April 2024 through Trash Island. A surprise album, Cold Visions was released following Bladee and Yung Lean's collaborative rock album Psykos the previous month.[1][2][3]

Cold Visions
A grungy, messy, graffiti-esque colored sketch of a figure with text in highly stylized letters: "Cold Visions" and "Bladee"
Studio album by
Released23 April 2024 (2024-04-23)
Length63:00
LabelTrash Island
Producer
Bladee chronology
Psykos
(2024)
Cold Visions
(2024)

Yung Lean appears on several tracks on the album, which also features guest appearances from Thaiboy Digital, Sickboyrari and Ecco2K. It was largely produced by F1lthy of Working on Dying, who had previously worked on Bladee's 2017 mixtape Working on Dying, with contributions by a wide range of producers including Yung Sherman, Lusi, Woesum, Mechatok, Whitearmor, Skrillex, James Ferraro and Gabriel Schuman, who served as executive producer alongside Bladee.

HotNewHipHop highlighted the song "Terrible Excellence",[4] while Paper highlighted "Fun Fact".[5] In a review written by Kieran Press-Reynolds of Pitchfork, Cold Visions received the Best New Music accolade and a rating of 8.3 out of 10.[6]

Track listing

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Cold Visions track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Paranoia Intro"
1:10
2."Wodrainer"
  • Reichwald
  • Ortiz
2:33
3."Yung Sherman" (featuring Yung Sherman)
2:12
4."Flatline"
  • Reichwald
  • Arthur Nyqvist
  • Tufvesson
  • Woesum
  • Yung Sherman
  • Ferraro
2:54
5."One Second" (featuring Yung Lean)
  • F1lthy
  • Rok
1:51
6."Sad Meal"
  • Reichwald
  • Ortiz
  • F1lthy
  • 100yrd
2:01
7."Fun Fact" (featuring Yung Lean)
  • Reichwald
  • Leandoer
  • Ortiz
  • F1lthy
  • Glasear
  • Ferraro
1:48
8."Only God Is Made Perfect"
  • Reichwald
  • Ortiz
  • F1lthy
  • AM
  • Warpstr
1:48
9."Don't Wanna Hang Out"
  • Reichwald
  • Ortiz
  • F1lthy
  • AM
1:39
10."I Don't Like People (Whitearmor Interlude)" (featuring Whitearmor)Whitearmor0:38
11."I Don't Like People" (featuring Yung Lean)
  • Reichwald
  • Ortiz
  • Timur Tokdemir
  • Leandoer
  • F1lthy
  • Rok
  • Mechatok
2:40
12."End of the Road Boyz"
  • Reichwald
  • Ortiz
  • Gabriel Schuman
  • F1lthy
  • 100yrd
  • Schuman
  • Ferraro
2:15
13."D.O.A" (with Skrillex)
  • Lusi
  • Skrillex
2:20
14."Don't Do Drugz"
  • Reichwald
  • Cano
Lusi1:33
15."Lows Partlyy"
  • Reichwald
  • Cano
Lusi2:16
16."So Cold Interlude"
  • Reichwald
  • Tufvesson
  • Nyqvist
  • Yung Sherman
  • Woesum
1:36
17."Message to Myself"
  • Reichwald
  • Tufvesson
  • Nyqvist
  • Yung Sherman
  • Woesum
  • Ferraro
1:15
18."Terrible Excellence" (featuring Yung Lean)
  • Reichwald
  • Leandoer
  • Ortiz
  • Schuman
  • F1lthy
  • 100yrd
  • Schuman
  • Whitearmor
2:33
19."Red Cross"
  • Reichwald
  • Tokdemir
  • Ortiz
  • Schuman
  • F1lthy
  • 100yrd
  • Mechatok
  • Schuman
  • Skrillex
2:17
20."Lucky Luke" (featuring Thaiboy Digital and Yung Lean)
  • Woesum
  • Yung Sherman
  • Schuman
  • Ferraro
2:07
21."River Flows in You"
  • Reichwald
  • Ortiz
  • F1lthy
  • Lucian
  • Mochila
  • Ferraro
1:44
22."King Nothingg"
  • Reichwald
  • Ortiz
  • F1lthy
  • Rok
  • Warpstr
  • Ferraro
2:26
23."Bad 4 Business"
  • Reichwald
  • Cano
  • Simon Hessman
  • Lusi
  • Hessman
1:42
24."Otherside" (featuring Sickboyrari)
  • Reichwald
  • Teezy F BabyIsrael
  • Ortiz
  • F1lthy
  • Lukrative
2:35
25."Normal"
  • Reichwald
  • Cano
Lusi1:18
26."Flexing and Finessing"
  • Reichwald
  • Ortiz
  • Schuman
  • F1lthy
  • Lukrative
  • Schuman
3:04
27."PM2"
  • Reichwald
  • Tufvesson
  • Nyqvist
  • Yung Sherman
  • Woesum
2:08
28."False"
  • Reichwald
  • Cano
Lusi2:07
29."Can't End on a Loss (Outro)"
  • Reichwald
  • Ortiz
  • F1lthy
  • Abraham
3:33
30."Cold Visions (Outro 2)" (featuring Ecco2K)
  • Reichwald
  • Rosenberg
  • Tufvesson
  • Whitearmor
  • Yung Sherman
3:33
Total length:63:00

Notes

  • Track titles are stylised in all caps.

Personnel

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  • Gabriel Schuman – executive production, additional production, mixing, mastering, transitions
  • Bladee – executive production, cover artwork
  • James Ferraro – additional sound effects
  • Malibu – additional sound effects
  • Inef Coupe – additional sound effects
  • Ville Nordström – cover artwork
  • Ecco2K – cover imaging and post-production[7][8]

References

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  1. ^ Fairbrother, Logan (23 April 2024). "Bladee Drops Gritty Surprise Mixtape Cold Visions". Hypebeast. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  2. ^ Horvath, Zachary (24 April 2024). "Bladee Drops Whopping 30-Song Project Cold Visions With Multiple Yung Lean Features". HotNewHipHop. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  3. ^ Breihan, Tom (24 April 2024). "Stream Bladee's Surprise New Mixtape Cold Visions". Stereogum. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  4. ^ Horvath, Zachary (24 April 2024). "Bladee & Yung Lean Further Their Chemistry on "Terrible Excellence"". HotNewHipHop. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  5. ^ D'Souza, Shaad (26 April 2024). "Sound Off: 10 Songs You Need to Hear Now". Paper. Retrieved 26 April 2024.
  6. ^ Press-Reynolds, Kieran (30 April 2024). "Bladee: Cold Visions". Pitchfork. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
  7. ^ Schuman, Gabriel [@ohyesitsgabe] (24 April 2024). "@dg_bladee #COLDVISIONS" – via Instagram.
  8. ^ Bladee [@dg_bladee] (24 April 2024). "#ColdVisions Bladee – Cold Visions 💿" – via Instagram.