Speeding by Allday

Speeding, released on 21 April 2017, is the second album from Allday, the Adelaide rapper Tomas Gaynor, who built his following by giving his music away online, moved to Melbourne to get serious and then relocated to Los Angeles that February. His debut, Startup Cult, had reached number three on the ARIA chart; this one went to number 6.

Gaynor described it as a snapshot of one stretch of his life, a record he wanted to feel personal and wintry, and it does: hazy, half-sung, cold-weather hip-hop where the melodies do as much work as the bars. "Sides", "Raceway" and "In Motion" were the singles. A critic at The Music heard enough in it to name Tory Lanez and Travis Scott, less as a charge of copying than as proof of how current it sounded. Gaynor himself said the next album probably wouldn't sound much like this one, that he had worked the mood out of his system.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.