Flower Boy

Flower Boy

Flower Boy

Flower Boy

Vinyl LP(Long Playing Record)

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Overview

Proclaiming himself as Flower Boy T with that gravelly voice and irascible disposition befitting a proprietor of a rust-belt collision shop, Tyler, The Creator thrives on his paradoxical character and daily life throughout his self-produced fourth solo album. Despite the coarseness of its alternate title, Scum Fuck Flower Boy, this is easily the least vulgar Tyler release. It's also the most radiant one, akin to a modern-day N.E.R.D. album -- marching-band drums, curlicue strings and synthesizers, candy-coated melodies galore -- filled with purpose, lacking in aimless frivolity. This is a major creative advancement, no slapdash repository of provocations and whims. Going by the preceding lead double A-side, the album's essence was impossible to forecast. There was little indication from the pairing of the bare-knuckled blast "Who Dat Boy" with "911/Mr. Lonely," where a longing Tyler, over a supreme dazed groove, sees adoring fans and fast cars -- the latter self-effacingly acknowledged elsewhere as a recurring album theme -- as inadequate fill-ins for one-on-one time. The album contains another hard-hitting track in the form of "I Ain't Got Time!," with the rhymes ranging from routine threats to singular declarations ("Next line will have 'em like 'Whoa'/I been kissing white boys since 2004"), but its makeup is typified more by "911" and the similarly lively "Find Your Wings," off the preceding Cherry Bomb. Even with combination bleacher-stomping/trunk-rattling drums and an F-bomb, "See You Again" is a positively kaleidoscopic love song, tricked out with laser zaps, xylophones, strings, horns, and sugary lines like "I'd give up my bakery to have a piece of your pie." On "Pothole," a low-profile standout, Tyler approaches driving as a metaphor for life, laments his solitude and vehicular escapism, but then proudly asserts his lone-wolf status over the sheep: "I'd rather drown in a pool by myself than fuck with they fleece." While most of these songs are rife with anxiety and isolation, the open-hearted lyricism and wide-scoped productions, put together by an artist in peak form, make them immensely engrossing. Frank Ocean, Pharrell Williams, Kali Uchis, Syd, and Estelle are among 11 supporting cast members, not one of whom is inessential to the whole. ~ Andy Kellman

Product Details

Release Date: 12/01/2017
Label: Columbia / Sony Music
UPC: 0889854690519
Rank: 2585

Tracks

Disc 1

  1. Foreword
  2. Where This Flower Blooms
  3. Sometimes...
  4. See You Again
  5. Who Dat Boy
  6. Pothole
  7. Garden Shed

Disc 2

  1. Boredom
  2. I Ain't Got Time!
  3. 911 /Mr. Lonely; 911/Outstanding/Mr. Lonely
  4. Droppin' Seeds
  5. November
  6. Glitter
  7. Enjoy Right Now, Today

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Tyler, The Creator   Primary Artist,Lead Vocals
Estelle   Vocals,Featured Artist
Lil Wayne   Vocals,Featured Artist
Pharrell Williams   Vocals
Corinne Bailey Rae   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Jaden   Featured Artist
Frank Ocean   Vocals,Featured Artist
ScHoolboy Q   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
A$AP Rocky   Vocals,Featured Artist,Vocals (Background)
Davon Wilson   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Lionel Boyce   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Alexander Brettin   Vocals (Background)
Anna of the North   Vocals,Featured Artist,Vocals (Background)
Austin Anderson   Guitar
Shane Powers   Vocals
Steve Lacy   Guitar,Vocals,Featured Artist
Kali Uchis   Vocals,Featured Artist
Rex Orange County   Vocals,Featured Artist,Vocals (Background)
Jaden Smith   Vocals,Featured Artist
Austin Feinstein   Guitar

Technical Credits

Irmin Schmidt   Composer
Jaki Liebezeit   Composer
Roy Ayers   Composer
Raymond Calhoun   Composer
Michael Karoli   Composer
Damo Suzuki   Composer
Dwayne Carter   Composer
Estelle Swaray   Composer
Alex OConnor   Composer
Mike Bozzi   Mastering
Eric White   Artwork
Tyler, The Creator   Engineer,Producer
Frank Ocean   Composer
Neal H. Pogue   Mixing
Vic Wainstein   Engineer
Tyler Okonma   Artwork,Composer,Producer,Package Design
Holger Schuering   Composer,Composer
Rakim Mayers   Composer
Josh Sellers   Assistant Engineer
Zachary Acosta   Mixing Assistant
Sofia Okkonen   Photography
Derek Jenner   Assistant Engineer
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