2024-10-17 19:50:03
Tyler, the Creator is apparently teasing his first new music in 18 months with a two-minute-long excerpt from a grim-looking new video apparently called “St. Chroma.”
It starts with a masked character, apparently Tyler, leading a series of masked people marching through the desert — his hair is in a comical, rabbit-ish do but the black and white video and the song’s whispered, almost unintelligible rapping and music — which ranges from chanted vocals to a warped chorus — have an ominous vibe. Sure enough, the people all march into a long container with the word “Chromakopia” painted onto it — then the video turns to color and a hand is seen setting off a detonator and the container is destroyed in a massive explosion, with all the people inside.
A rep for Tyler did not immediately respond to Variety‘s request for more information.
It’s the first new music from Tyler since the release early last year of the expanded version of his excellent 2021 album “Call Me If You Get Lost” album. He performed at the Austin City Limits festival earlier this month and said that it would probably be the last show he’d play for a while — which the new music makes doubly curious, because his annual Camp Flog festival in Los Angeles is scheduled for a month from now; no lineup has been announced but the festival often reveals its lineup just days before.
It’s all a long way from his most recent video, for the song “Dogtooth,” in which Tyler switches back and forth between a construction backdrop, where he takes a Rolls Royce for a spin, and a lush background as he suits up to walk a herd of dogs. He revealed in a Q&A with fans that he found a hypoallergenic breed of dogs for the shoot because of his pet allergy. After he was asked how he managed to create the scene, he answered: “hypo, and i took a bunch of allegra and prednitsone [sic] mannnn.”
