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Tyler, The Creator Announces New Album, ‘Chromakopia’


The Grammy-winning musician's seventh album is set to drop next week

His signature production style — the glistening synth chord progressions that doused early OF releases in a cartoon-like technicolor — arrived subdued beneath a moodier sonic register. A sign of a distinct musical reinvention, which is par for the course for Tyler, whose career thus far has followed his various alter egos rise and fall as he entered different phases of life. More than a decade into his career, he’s an elder statesman of today’s youth culture, and this latest sonic turn might speak to some of the frustrations he’s expressed with the current state of music.

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