#Tyler the creator new album full#

Having studied and truly internalized the pressure-point stimulation of Eminem, who made his millions in part by identifying and uttering the most provocative statements possible in any given scenario, Odd Future waged a campaign of deliberate transgression that netted support and outrage in equal measure but, importantly, used the attention to shine a light on the stellar crafts of its members. As crabby as it was savvy, the collective built a vast and impressive catalogue of prickly songs that lashed out at icons, idols, and influencers high and low.

Members featured heavily on each otherвЂ™s songs, taking a page from the Wu-Tang playbook in the quest for domination. Odd Future was a self-contained unit housing all the rappers, singers, and producers needed to make records. The groupвЂ™s open contempt for tastemakers and A-listers ran counter to the charm offensive that got you into a career in hip-hop back then, when legends were built one blog post, famous co-sign, and guest spot at a time. Stream it below.Call Me If You Get Lost is Tyler riffling through old yearbooks, laughing at how small your youthful worries seem now but quietly missing their simplicity.ДЄ decade ago, Odd Future - a ragtag group of rabble-rousing artists, skaters, and jokesters hailing from Southern California - stormed the gates of the rap game without the support of the major labels and the popular bloggers that, for a time, acted as intermediaries between listeners and the endless flood of new music available online. The 'Yonkers' video celebrated its 10th anniversary earlier this year, and looking back on that era of Tyler's career, it was already clear that he was a true original, but it would've been nearly impossible to predict he'd be making music like Call Me If You Get Lost a decade later.Д¬all Me If You Get Lost is out now on A Boy With A Gun/Columbia.

But a couple things are already for sure: the album is like nothing else in Tyler's discography, and Tyler has come a long, long way as an artist. It's impressive on first listen but it already seems like the kind of album that requires multiple listens to unpack its many layers. Like IGOR, Call Me If You Get Lost is a dense album. And it's a minor role, but Frank Ocean shows up at the end of 'LEMONHEAD.' Almost every track is peppered with ad-libs from DJ Drama, and there are standout appearances from up and coming Detroit rapper 42 Dugg on 'LEMONHEAD,' Lil Wayne on 'HOT WIND BLOWS,' Lil Uzi Vert and Pharrell on 'JUGGERNAUT,' R&B singers Brent Faiyaz and Fana Hues on the nearly-10-minute 'SWEET / I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO DANCE,' and more. Tyler's voice is a lot more prominent and in the forefront on this album than it was on IGOR, but he ropes in some key collaborators too. It's one grand piece of music broken up into 16 tracks. These are not - to reference an album by his onetime Odd Future groupmate Earl Sweatshirt - some rap songs.

Tyler dropped two songs ahead of the album's release ('LUMBERJACK' and 'WUSYANAME'), and if they felt small or minor, it's only because they're best heard in the context of the album. Tyler continues to be an inventive producer, filling the album with maximalist horn arrangements, psychedelic passages, well-picked samples (like Westside Gunn's 'Michael Irvin' on the first track), and much more, and proving - as he did on IGOR - that production may actually be his biggest strength. Most of the songs are short, except the two epics that pass the eight and nine minute marks, the album's structured like a song cycle where each track flows right into the next. It's nice to hear Tyler rapping on his own music again, after spending a year using other people's records to remind us how good of a rapper he is, but Call Me If You Get Lost isn't a return to form or anything Tyler is still evolving. Now Tyler follows IGOR with Call Me If You Get Lost, and it finds him fusing the melodic experimentation of IGOR with his continued knack for clear, aggressive rapping. The following year, he showed up with vicious guest verses on albums from Freddie Gibbs, Westside Gunn, and Lil Yachty. IGOR found Tyler leaning most heavily into his singing and his production work, but he quickly reminded the world that Tyler, the Rapper wasn't gone forever.

It was simultaneously some of his most experimental and some of his most accessible music yet, and definitely his most melodic.

#Tyler the creator new album full#

Tyler began his evolution towards a more melodic, soulful sound on 2015's Cherry Bomb and even more so on 2017's Flower Boy, but IGOR made the full leap. Tyler, the Creator and the now-defunct Odd Future set out to change the world of rap music with their rowdy live shows and early mixtapes like Tyler's macabre Bastard, and they were successful, but Tyler actually made his best album yet by toning things down: 2019's IGOR.