★★★★★
Once you've got a few successful releases under your belt and you've established yourself as an artist, you'll be given the green light to create whatever you want without questioning. If any other rapper released Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon it would come as a surprise, but at this point, this is exactly the album we've come to expect from Kid Cudi...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-03-25
★★★★★
"It should be in the Bible/Middle finger up to the people who don't like you," Kid Cudi declares on his first release since splitting from Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music. He's a cult hero comfortable enough in his weirdness to keep fans cheering and foes guessing: While inconsistent spacedusted instrumentals coat the first half of this self-produced LP, the back half brings high points from the silky Raphael Saadiq guest spot "Balmain Jeans" to the brooding, acoustic "Troubled Boy...
- www.rollingstone.com
2014-03-25
★★★★★
Take a look at the album title: Kid Cudi's heading back to the moon. The timing makes sense. His first two albums took place there, both of which went gold. Now that he's drifted away permanently from the G.O.O.D. Music axis, a return voyage probably seems appealling. The first track, "Destination: Mother Moon" sets the course--it opens on a horizon-blotting synth panning overhead, and it conjures some genuine fear and awe (Cudi's always been good with synthesizers)...
- pitchfork.com
2014-03-18
★★★★★
Kid Cudi originally intended Satellite Flight to be a short EP, bridging the gap between his ill-received Indicud and the forthcoming follow-up to his successful breakthrough Man on the Moon series. What resulted instead was a 10-song, full-length record of new tracks, which he dropped Beyoncé-style in a surprise midnight iTunes release on the same day one of hip-hop's most anticipated albums (ScHoolboy Q's Oxymoron) was set to come out...
- consequenceofsound.net
2014-03-04
★★★★★
Flaws and all, "SATELLITE FLIGHT: The journey to Mother Moon" stands as one of Kid Cudi's biggest accomplishments. If there's one thing Kid Cudi has proven throughout his atmospheric rise, it's that he's not afraid to take a road less traveled, regardless of if the risk is worth the reward. Along the way, the Cleveland, Ohio native has become somewhat of a Rap anti-hero, as he explores themes and musical styles that aren't typically championed within Hip Hop...
- www.hiphopdx.com
2014-03-04
★★★★★
Kid Cudi Pushes The Envelope Again On 'Satellite Flight'
Mar 3rd, '14 ? Music ? by Emmanuel C.M. ? No Comments
Cudi released Satellite Flight: The Journey To Mother Moon--the EP turned LP--through a digital-only drop with little warning. It felt like Cudi was sticking to his mantra that he does what he wants, when he wants. But this was no impulsive decision...
- www.xxlmag.com
2014-03-04
★★★★★
In a move that caught us by surprise, Kid Cudi released his new project late on the night of Tuesday, February 25. Starting off as an EP, was expanded into a ten-track LP and now serves as a prelude to the third instalment of his series. Known for taking ambient sounds and clashing them with heavy guitar riffs, Kid Cudi opens the album with the instrumental "Destination: Mother Moon," shortly followed by the title track, "Satellite Flight...
- exclaim.ca
2014-02-28
★★★★★
Kid Cudi's an undeniably popular rapper. Though his 2009 debut Man on the Moon and its slightly better sequel weren't exactly critical darlings, he's been a reliable Soundscan dent-maker and the type of figure that easily inspires 379-page threads on message board and hype thermometer KanyeToThe. And even if Cudi rarely lines it all up, his ability's evident: The music's production, which is for the most part self-generated, is usually interesting, and his fuck-the-world posturing resonates...
- pitchfork.com
2013-05-09
★★★★★
Whipping winds, crashing thunder, crackling fire - is this a Kid Cudi album or a Captain Planet And The Planeteers episode? Like that cartoon, this self-produced third effort by the Cleveland-born hip-hop artist is rooted in the 90s - from the album's first words (a spooky Macaulay Culkin quote from The Good Son) and the deliciously dancey Red Eye, recalling Enigma's Return To Innocence, to the penultimate track's nine minutes of sexy house rambling featuring Michael Bolton...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-04-25
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