Tyler, The Creator Announces New Album, ‘Chromakopia’

Tyler, the Creator simply introduced the title and launch date of his new album, Chromakopia, set to drop on October twenty eighth, and now obtainable for pre-order. The announcement comes days after Tyler infamously lamented about followers badgering him for brand spanking new music on-line. Final week, he commented on a put up from Steve Lacy on Instagram, the place he expressed frustration with followers asking for brand spanking new music. “I really feel you shit is annoying particularly once I by no means mentioned out my mouth an album was coming,” Tyler wrote. “I wanna be an actress lmao.”

It seems Tyler had plans up his sleeve all alongside.

Yesterday, he kicked off this newest album rollout that followers have been clamoring for by sharing a snippet of a brand new tune and music video on YouTube. Within the clip, we hear Tyler in a brand new vocal register. His signature manufacturing type — the glistening synth chord progressions that doused early OF releases in a cartoon-like technicolor — arrived subdued beneath a moodier sonic register. An indication of a definite musical reinvention, which is par for the course for Tyler, whose profession to this point has adopted his varied alter egos rise and fall as he entered completely different phases of life. Now, it appears, Tyler’s getting into new terrain. Greater than a decade into his profession, he’s an elder statesman of as we speak’s youth tradition, and this newest sonic flip would possibly converse to a few of the frustrations he’s expressed with the present state of music.

On prime of a brand new album, Tyler’s Camp Flog Gnaw Competition will rejoice its tenth anniversary subsequent month, giving Tyler, the Creator followers lots to be joyful about over the following few weeks.