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The album’s volatility can be both thrilling and frustrating. At 54 minutes, Cherry Bomb is noticeably shorter than 2011’s Goblin and 2013’s Wolf, but it seems to pack more musical ideas between its seams than the two combined. Instead, it’s an album defined by contrasts: Noisy convulsions pile up alongside jazz and soul grooves, poppy melodies are offset by intentionally muddy mixing elsewhere, and Tyler’s foreboding growl is occasionally rendered cartoonish via effects. ScHoolboy Q, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, and Pharrell all contribute bars to Cherry Bomb (in that order, though Pharrell is an influence throughout), but with respect to their individual strengths, that fact alone could lead onlookers to believe this is a fairly neat and tidy collection of songs. Veteran artists like Roy Ayers, Charlie Wilson, and Leon Ware all make cameos on Cherry Bomb, and the album is peppered with live instrumentation, including a string section on “2SEATER” that was recorded at Hans Zimmer’s studio.Īll of that means Tyler’s experimentation sometimes rubs up against the relatively predictable rest of the rap world. He’s more interested in making a great album with a bubbly, wide-ranging musicality. Unlike Earl, Tyler doesn’t seem very interested in making a great rap album. The two projects could hardly be more different. The self-produced album arrives less than a month after I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside, the minimal, introverted new release from Odd Future compatriot Earl Sweatshirt. Most of all, with Cherry Bomb, his fourth full-length, he’s doing what he can to keep Odd Future from being placed into a box. He’s 24 now, and he’s still very much a big deal - maybe bigger than ever. There was plenty of skepticism of their actual talent level and potential for longevity, but we’re now more than five years removed from Tyler’s Bastard.

If you could get past the devilish vulgarity, it was easy to see a legitimate creative core inside the madness. Even if they seemed to come out of nowhere, one good look at Tyler, the Creator and the rest of hip-hop collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All let you know they wouldn’t be a secret for long.

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