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The kids were all right; were closing the decade in more mess than we started it in.

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What they didnt see coming is what happens after you incite a revolution.

Its poetic: Be better or be broken.

A sound that began as a study in contrasting grotesqueries buffed away the rust and divots.

IGOR, album No.

5, doesnt shareFlower Boys interest in bracing Tylers day-one fans for change.

Tyler raps when he feels like it now, sometimes not at all.

Where it used to conjure demons, it now evokes cherubs and children.

IGORs more than just a love album.

The heady love suites of Marvin GayesI Want Youand Leon WaresMusical Massageare inspirations as well.

(I Think name-checks both Ware and the Marvin album he wrote and produced.

)IGORdrifts where Tyler, the Creator albums used to whip, zip, and crash.

Even the fragments have purpose.

Each albums advances were necessary to get to this.

This album is so pretty, confident, and considered that you wonder why he named itIGOR.

Tyler, the Creators not a freak or a goblin or a monster anymore.

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