Igor (album)
Igor | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Studio album by Tyler, the Creator | ||||
Publication |
17th May 2019 |
|||
Label (s) | Columbia Records , Sony Music | |||
Format (s) |
||||
Title (number) |
12/12 |
|||
running time |
43:30 / 39:44 |
|||
Tyler, the Creator |
||||
|
||||
|
Igor is the fifth studio album by the American rapper Tyler, the Creator . It was released on May 17, 2019 via Columbia Records and Sony Music .
production
The entire album was produced by Tyler, the Creator himself.
Cover design
The album cover shows Tyler, the Creator in black and white . He looks at the viewer with his mouth slightly open. The background is completely pink. The title Igor in Schwarz is in the lower right corner of the picture, and at the bottom of the picture is the note All Songs written, produced, and arranged by Tyler Okonma .
Guest Posts
In addition to Tyler, the Creator, other artists appear on five of the twelve songs on the album. The rapper Lil Uzi Vert can be heard on Igor's Theme , while the singer Solange Knowles has a guest appearance on the song I Think . Earfquake is a collaboration with rapper Playboi Carti , and singer Pharrell Williams is on Are We Still Friends? represented. Tyler, the Creator also works with rapper Kanye West on Puppet . Various musicians can be heard singing in the background on some tracks, including Santigold , Jessy Wilson, La Roux , Cee-Lo Green , Charlie Wilson and Slowthai.
Track list
# | title | Guest musician | Producers | length |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Igor's theme | Lil Uzi Vert | Tyler, the Creator | 3:21 |
2 | Earfquake | Playboi Carti | Tyler, the Creator | 3:10 |
3 | I think | As long as Knowles | Tyler, the Creator | 3:32 |
4th | Boyfriend 1 | Tyler, the Creator | 4:00 | |
5 | Running out of time | Tyler, the Creator | 2:57 | |
6th | New Magic Wand | Tyler, the Creator | 3:15 | |
7th | A boy is a gun | Tyler, the Creator | 3:30 | |
8th | Puppet | Kanye West | Tyler, the Creator | 2:59 |
9 | What's good | Tyler, the Creator | 3:26 | |
10 | Gone, Gone / Thank You | Tyler, the Creator | 6:15 | |
11 | I don't love you anymore | Tyler, the Creator | 2:41 | |
12 | Are We Still Friends? | Pharrell Williams | Tyler, the Creator | 4:24 |
Chart successes and singles
Chart positions Explanation of the data |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albums | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Singles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Igor entered the German charts at number 29 on May 24, 2019 and was in the top 100 for a total of three weeks. The album was particularly successful in the US charts, where it occupied the top . It also reached the top 10 in New Zealand, Australia, Norway, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Austria and Portugal, among others.
The song Earfquake was the only single that was released for download on June 4, 2019 . It reached number 13 on the US charts and number 17 on the UK charts. Thanks to downloads and streaming , the songs I Think , Igor's Theme , Running Out of Time , New Magic Wand , A Boy Is a Gun , What's Good and Puppet were also featured on the Billboard Hot 100 .
Awards
Igor was at the Grammy Awards 2020 in the category Best Rap Album award. In the UK, it was awarded a Silver Record for more than 60,000 copies sold in 2020 .
reception
Professional reviews | |
---|---|
Average rating | |
source | rating |
Metacritic | 81% |
More reviews | |
source | rating |
laut.de | |
Rolling Stone | |
allmusic |
Igor was rated positively by music journalists almost across the board. The Metacritic site calculated an average of 81% from 18 reviews of English-language media.
Kay Schier from laut.de rated Igor with four out of a possible five points. Tyler, the Creator is "with" Igor "increasingly becoming one of those people whose music you are sure in advance that only something cool can come." So he sounds "far from it, as if it would be in the foreseeable future The future is running out of ideas ”and his texts are“ disarmingly honest, sophisticated, and at the same time unconscious. ”The production is also“ smoothly flowing into one another ”and“ sounds very unified. ”Only an occasional“ excessive use of strongly alienating effects ”is criticized.
Individual evidence
- ↑ album cover
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ Igor chart following on officialcharts.de
- ↑ International chart tracking Igor
- ↑ UK: silver
- ↑ Rating: metacritic.com
- ↑ Rating: laut.de
- ↑ Rating: Rolling Stone
- ↑ Rating: allmusic.com