Don Toliver’s breakout and debut album “Heaven or Hell” from 2020 was a very important stepping stone for his career. Many people’s first experience with his music was from this album and its for good reason. The tracklist is full of hit songs and incredible performances from Toliver and each feature. 

All four of the singles landed incredibly well with three of the four hitting over 250 million streams each. The lead single “No Idea,” is most likely his most important song as it recently hit over 1 billion streams on Spotify. The unique flute instrumental and fantastic singing performance lead the way for the rest of the album’s 12 songs.

Now going in order of tracklist, “Cardigan” hit big as well with a laid back flowing song structure. The next song was massive on TikTok during 2020. “After Party” has an upbeat party vibe with atmospheric vocals and an iconic trumpet instrumental. Going into the next song, another single for the album, “Can’t Feel My Legs” has an electric singing performance and an exciting electronic beat.

Moving onto a more introspective relaxing song, “Company” kicked off a series of three songs all dealing with missing a relationship with somebody. It starts slow and builds into a more upbeat outro with lyrics talking about how both sides are trying to speed away from the past but are struggling to move on.

Another big hit, “Had Enough” featuring Quavo and Offset, is one of my favorite songs of all time. The singing performance from Don is by far one of his best and the instrumental is extremely iconic. The soullike beat matches the vocals extremely well and the drums complement it perfectly. The transition into Offset’s verse is very seamless with a subtle beat switch to complement the rapping rather than singing and into another great singing performance by Quavo following right after. When I saw it during the Hardstone Psycho Tour it was absolutely my favorite moment of the whole show and definitely solidified it as my favorite song from this album.

Overall, the album is very consistent as it is pretty condensed being only 12 tracks. The only real low point for me is “Candy,” which isn’t very good as the chorus is very repetitive and gets old quickly with it also being the longest song on the album at four minutes despite the very good electric guitar instrumental. 

In spite of  “Candy,” the album is nearly flawless with great performances and beats throughout the tracklist. It is clear why this album led to Don Toliver becoming one of the most in demand artists out right now and there really isn’t anything else like it even looking at Don’s discography as he evolves and keeps things fresh with each album.

I will probably be revisiting this album for the rest of my life, and I would give it a 5/5.