Tyler, The Creator Announces New Album, ‘Chromakopia’

Tyler the Creator has just announced the title and release date of his new album, Chromakopiascheduled for release on October 28thand now available for pre-order. The announcement comes days after Tyler infamously lamented about fans harassing him for new music online. Last week, he commented on a Steve Lacy Instagram post where he expressed frustration with fans asking for new music. “I feel like your shit is annoying especially when I never said an album was coming,” Tyler wrote. “I want to be an actress lmao.”

Turns out Tyler had plans up his sleeve the whole time.

Yesterday, he kicked off the release of the latest album fans have been clamoring for, sharing a snippet of a new song and a music video on YouTube. In the clip, we hear Tyler in a new vocal register. His signature production style—the bright synth chord progressions that drenched OF’s early releases in cartoonish 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 the rise and fall of his various alter egos as he entered different phases of life. Now, it seems, Tyler is entering new ground. More than a decade into his career, he’s an elder statesman of today’s youth culture, and this latest sonic turn may speak to some of the frustrations he’s expressed with the current state of music.

In addition to a new album, Tyler’s Camp Flog Gnaw Festival will celebrate its 10th anniversary next month, giving Tyler, the Creator fans plenty of reasons to be happy in the coming weeks.