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Tyler, The Creator Takes A Huge Turn From Igor

13 min readJun 28, 2021

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Image: Tyler, The Creator’s Twitter

A Record that will get you from the start. To put this album’s brilliance in perspective, I already listened to it, front to back more than twelve times. And. enjoyed. every. moment. of it.

Tyler, the Creator, the former leader of ‘Odd Future’ and the artist who gave us two of the best albums last decade, ‘Flowerboy’ and ‘Igor’, dropped his seventh(!) album on 25th June 2021. I have a lot of thoughts, believe me, a lot of them. But, I am still confused. Let us begin.

Overall Sonic Overview

I separated the sonic and lyrical overview because they are very different on this project, let me begin with the sonic. Sonically, this is Tyler’s best project yet, without a doubt. Out of the sixteen tracks, fourteen are ‘songs’ and out of those, I have added fourteen to my playlist. Yes, there are one or two tracks that probably shouldn’t be there, but I am telling facts here.

Every song has a brilliant instrumental on it and obviously, most of them have spoken word. That being said, that is not a surprise, we saw what he can do instrumentally on his previous albums, the most heartwarming(?) thing is that he…

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M.A. Mercier
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Written by M.A. Mercier

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