Post Malone is gearing up to release a new double-album, The Eternal Buzz. With this being his first full-length project since 2024's F-1Trillion: Long Bed, fans are speculating as to whether his forthcoming body of work will be another country project.

On July 16th, Post shared the first unreleased snippet of his rollout, a trap-driven anthem that features the ‘Chemical’ crooner's trademark, reverb-laden vocals gliding across a fiery beat. The rap track plays while Post dons a cowboy hat - and if this doesn't perfectly capture the dual spirit of The Eternal Buzz, well, we're not sure what will. With this earworm seemingly the lead single from the project, it consolidates an idea that Post has been hinting at over the past few months.

With the first clue regarding The Eternal Buzz arriving back on April 6th with a whiteboard displaying an empty tracklist, Post has been hinting from the get-go that he'll be splitting this record into two styles. On that whiteboard, there are 20 songs listened for each disc. Now, of course, Post may have written more tracks - or maybe even removed some songs - since then, so the exact number of songs on The Eternal Buzz might end up being slightly different to the 40 we expected.

Either way, it's evident that Post has a clear direction with this being his first ever double-album. Judging by a few of his more recent clues, we suspect the ‘Sunflower’ singer-songwriter is teasing that one side will be full of country music, and the other will mark a return to the rap-inspired aesthetic of his earlier material.

For instance, when Post revealed he'd be pushing back his 2026 Big Ass Stadium Tour, Part 2 with Jelly Roll in order to finish his album, he dropped a little easter egg at the end of that statement that suggests he's been revisiting his ‘rap’ persona.

In early May, Post shared, “Looking at the upcoming schedule after stagecoach, I came to the realization that what we were trying to do, and what’s possible, isn’t really lining up. Truth is, I promised y’all beautiful people new music, and I don’t have the time to finish it before tour starts. We ain’t ready for tour just yet, so I’m making the decision to push the tour back about 3 weeks to get this music done. That being said, I’m so sorry to the folks who were planning on coming to the few canceled shows. I was looking forward to going nuts with y’all”.

The ‘I Had Some Help’ chart-topper went on, “That THAT being said, we been making some badass s*** for this double album… and I can’t wait to perform for y’all again. And to a lot of little stinkers that think I’ve forgotten about ole Stoney, I haven’t…”

It's this last line that feels particularly juicy for Day One fans of Posty. Stoney is the name of the New York native's debut album, which featured now-iconic hits such as ‘White Iverson’, ‘I Fall Apart’ and ‘Go Flex’. It epitomised the hazy, Auto-Tuned trap that was emerging at the time, with Post becoming the poster-child for this new sound.

Since that project, Post would often refer to himself as ‘Young Stoney’, but as his style developed and he explored rockier textures on Hollywood's Bleeding and an indie-folk feel on AUSTIN, the genre-blurring maverick seemingly stopped using this moniker.

But now, for Post to say, “And to a lot of little stinkers that think I’ve forgotten about ole Stoney, I haven’t”, is surely the clearest signal yet that he's working on new trap music in a similar vein to his early Stoney and beerbongs & bentleys projects.

At the same time, there have been various reports that Post has been writing with country artists such as Jake Worthington, Thomas Rhett and ERNEST. The latter was a lynchpin of sorts for Post's first country album, F-1Trillion: Long Bed, helping to foster a lot of the Nashville connections that ended up leading to stellar collaborations.

What's more, Jelly - his opener throughout both parts of the Big Ass Stadium Tour - has hinted that he and Post have been working on new music, following ‘Losers’ from F-1Trillion.

So we don't think Post is moving away from country entirely. It just seems that he's now looking to appease every side of his fanbase, rather than sticking to just one sonic lane.

Ever since he stormed onto the scene with ‘White Iverson’ in 2015, he's been known as one of the most chameleonic figures in the modern landscape, flitting between genres and sounds with an easy that most fellow artists would struggle to emulate without losing their sense of authenticity. As a result, while this potential return to a trap ambience will undoubtedly disappoint some of Post's country listeners - especially given how momentous his foray into the genre was in 2024 - this Jekyll & Hyde approach to The Eternal Buzz makes a lot of sense for Post.

Listeners have had to learn over the years that, if you're going to be a Post fan, there's a good chance that whatever his ‘sound’ is right now, it'll be different this time next year.

Which is why it's heartening to see that he's still got at least one foot in Nashville. It was clear throughout his F-1Trillion rollout just how much Post loves country music, and this felt like something that he had been working towards over the course of his career, rather than being a fleeting fancy or a commercial decision.

Even if Post makes a non-country album after The Eternal Buzz, we think that, having seen the joy etched onto his face whenever he's surrounded by fiddles, banjos and acoustic guitars, he'll always find his way back to that wonderfully down-home sound.