The brightness is defiant, as Tyler processes the loss of someone he loves. MARSEILLE, France (AP) Marseille coach Igor Tudor is leaving the club after just one season in charge. Atop this budding dread, Tyler layers candied keys and harmonizing vocals. 'IGOR hits its stride when it embraces heavier, more menacing instrumentals, particularly on NEW MAGIC WAND, which features a beat change that ranks as one of the best of the decade.', '‘Igor’s Theme’ has a great bassline that demands to be played at deafening volumes and ‘Earfquake’ is filled with heartache and pathos. The opening “IGOR’S THEME” serves less as a guiding force and more like a recurring motif of doom that hides in the shadows and pops its head in at select moments, like on “NEW MAGIC WAND” where spooky synths erupt below Tyler’s thought process: “I saw a photo, you looked joyous,” goes one of the more poignant lines. Songs don’t build to a crescendo, they often begin there. Tyler The Creator Igor LP Vinyl (Z79816) Artist: Tyler The Creator Album: Igor Album release year: 2019 Label: Columbia Format: 1-LP vinyl Condition: Brand. Tyler, who proudly produced, wrote, and arranged the album, is singing more but he’s not worrying whether his tracks have a traditional pop arc. IGOR sounds like the work of a perfectionist giving shape to his more radical ideas. IGOR, the 28-year-old’s sixth full-length, is Tyler finally content in the face of all that agony.

That Grammy-nominated album is eminently pleasing, the sound of an iconoclast succumbing to his better judgment. He responded to what was missing with antagonism, album after album, until 2017 when he looked back at his life with a sunny lens and twinge of nostalgia to deliver his best work, Flower Boy.

The moods of Tyler, the Creator’s albums have largely been defined by absence-of his father, of critical acclaim, of love.

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