IGOR by Tyler, the Creator

IGOR, the sixth album from Tyler, the Creator, landed on Columbia on May 17, 2019, and he produced every second of it himself. Cut mostly in California between 2017 and 2019, with side trips to Lake Como in Italy and to Atlanta, it takes the warm turn of Flower Boy and runs it through a haze of fuzzy synthesizers, blown-out lo-fi vocals and soul chords that feel borrowed from a scratched record.

It plays as one story: a love triangle between the title character and the man he wants, with heartbreak, jealousy and loss doing the heavy lifting. Guests like Playboi Carti, Lil Uzi Vert, Solange and Kanye West drift in like voices overheard at a party. "Earfquake" hit number 13 on the Hot 100, his best showing at the time, the album opened at number one on the Billboard 200, a first for him, and it won Best Rap Album at the 2020 Grammys, his first Grammy.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.