![]() ![]() ![]() Always a skilled rapper, Tyler reclaims his status as such, returning to his roots in a way but maintaining the sophistication we know from his recent releases throughout. If Flower Boy and Igor were platforms for Tyler to prove to the world that he was more than the controversial rapper he had been labelled as, Call Me If You Get Lost sees Tyler come full circle. “I don’t even like using the word ‘bitch’ / It just sounded cool,” Tyler raps at the end of ‘Corso’, an apology for his younger, provocative, self perhaps. On paper it shouldn’t work, but Tyler makes it seem like the obvious thing to do. ![]() ‘Lemonhead’, the record’s third song, appears to be a straightforward hip-hop track until trap production is swapped for a soft bossa nova-style interlude that leads straight into the '90s RnB-inspired 'WUSYANAME'. Time and time again, Tyler merges seemingly unrelated ideas together and regardless of their style and tempo they fit seamlessly. The album is in a lot of ways a bag of well-curated pick-n-mix, a selection of contrasting moments of brilliance put into one big melting pot. Already a master of the art of breaking genre boundaries, the album sees Tyler effortlessly move between Wolf-like beats, Flower Boy-esque soul, Goblin-levels of energy, Cherry Bomb-inspired flows and Igor-style synth melodies. Tyler, The Creator calls upcoming Eminem album 'ass'Ĭall Me If You Get Lost is, and does, a lot. ![]()
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