Released

Picking one particular Tyler, the Creator album instead of just letting all the good, bad, ugly, surprising, funny, dumb, and beautiful elements of that whole Odd Future phenomenon seems like a tough order if you want to personify just what Tyler brought to this strange hip-hop world (and what he carried over from the old one). Suffice it to say that if you first knew him as the sick-joke-enthusiast enfant terrible antagonist of a thousand panicking 2012 thinkpieces, the empathy and desire and regret in his relationship-struggle record IGOR should reverberate with the shock of the perpetually new. What’s left from those old days, fortunately, is the fact that as a musician he operates (and sings) like someone who was never told that The Neptunes and MF DOOM were supposed to serve different markets.

Nate Patrin

Suggestions
Still cover

Still

Erika de Casier
Connected cover

Connected

the Foreign Exchange
3 + 3 cover

3 + 3

The Isley Brothers
Choose Your Weapon cover

Choose Your Weapon

Hiatus Kaiyote
Fatigue cover

Fatigue

L’Rain
Astroworld cover

Astroworld

Travis Scott
Apocalypse cover

Apocalypse

Thundercat
Sounds of Crenshaw, Vol. 1 cover

Sounds of Crenshaw, Vol. 1

Terrace Martin, The Pollyseeds
Lahai cover

Lahai

Sampha
Mother cover

Mother

Cleo Sol