Flower Boy
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CRITIC REVIEWS
100
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.
91
On his fifth full-length project, Tyler Okonma has made himself more available than he’s ever allowed before. Better known as Tyler, The Creator, the 26-year-old has never sounded as vulnerable as he does on Flower Boy—or more in command of his talents, both as a rapper and a composer.
90
Clocking in at 47 minutes, the album is both Tyler, The Creator’s shortest and most cohesive album to date and is full of introspective admissions that logically line up with his public character.
85
So subdued, wistful, permissive, and relatable, are these songs—they are Tyler’s most refined to date. Collectively, they’re a kaleidoscopic sonic wonder.
85
Recruiting some of the best names in R&B for an album that pulls from the genre’s glory days, Tyler may have put together his finest record in a decade.
83
At its core, Flower Boy looks inward. Underneath the hardened, immature exterior lies an impressionable psyche that pines to be understood.
80
Since his Bastard mixtape dropped back in 2009, every two years, Tyler has progressively become a better writer, rapper and producer with each album. Flower Boy follows suit as Tyler delivers his most complete and sonicly appeasing album to date.
80
From beginning to end, he capitalizes on the neo-soul and jazzy elements he’s flirted with previously to create a smooth, conceptual, even cinematic album.
80
Tyler, the Creator blossoms as a rapper, producer, and lyricist on Flower Boy, his most beautiful and well-crafted album to date.
80
This is easily Tyler's most emotionally risky, and rewarding, work to date—and, in its own way, more transgressive than anything from Odd Future's punk-rap peak.
80
The apex of his musical output thus far, Flower Boy is Tyler’s chronicle of a conflicted artist still grappling with what it means to be an adult.
80
As he suggests, this is a new, mature Tyler at work.
80
Flower Boy has arrived in the age of wokeness and Tyler has swapped antics for introspection, though still with the same button-pushing that hooked a whole generation of kids.
80
Lyrically, this feels like Tyler’s most accomplished album yet.
80
Backed by a supporting cast of R&B superstars and bright newcomers, it’s a record of long, lazy summers; sitting back and staring at the clouds.
78
Flower Boy introduces us to a new Tyler that seems interested in cultivating lyrical and sonic beauty instead of testing his listeners’ tolerance for profanity.
75
It is easily Tyler’s most accomplished album, mostly because he sounds confident in his own skin here.
70
This album could have been an instant classic if a lot of the weaker moments weren’t so exposed but nonetheless, Tyler definitely shows a surprising maturity and growth (much like a flower) in his music.
70
On Flower Boy, Tyler, The Creator makes his strongest case yet that the music’s all that matters.
70
Regardless of whether Tyler has fully matured as a person (spoiler: he thankfully hasn't), the growth exhibited with Flower Boy shouldn't go unnoticed. It's high time the naysayers stopped to smell the roses.
50
As for the actual music involved in the release of Scum Fuck Flower Boy, it’s fine. It’s more of the same. It seems to be needing something more.
I still find it funny how not even the biggest Tyler fans could have seen this one coming. One of those albums that so heavily delivers on the hype, that it feels impossible.
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Track List
| 1 | Foreword 3:14 feat. Rex Orange County | 91 |
| 2 | Where This Flower Blooms 3:14 feat. Frank Ocean | 90 |
| 3 | Sometimes... 0:36 | 80 |
| 4 | See You Again 3:00 feat. Kali Uchis | 96 |
| 5 | Who Dat Boy 3:25 feat. A$AP Rocky | 90 |
| 6 | Pothole 3:57 feat. Jaden | 86 |
| 7 | Garden Shed 3:43 feat. Estelle | 91 |
| 8 | Boredom 5:20 | 94 |
| 9 | I Ain't Got Time! 3:26 | 90 |
| 10 | 911 / Mr. Lonely 4:15 feat. Frank Ocean, Steve Lacy | 95 |
| 11 | Droppin' Seeds 0:59 feat. Lil Wayne | 81 |
| 12 | November 3:45 | 89 |
| 13 | Glitter 3:44 | 86 |
| 14 | Enjoy Right Now, Today 3:55 | 82 |
Total Length: 46 minutes
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Added on: July 6, 2017