DON'T TAP THE GLASS

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  Rearview (2025)

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  Music of the moment about being in the moment. Tyler has built a reputation as an artist that takes his time and releases high quality, polished, cohesive albums with distinct aesthetics and themes. He subverted this reputation by quickly releasing a high quality, rough-around-the-edges, cohesive album with distinct aesthetics and themes. But this roughness is more than just an aesthetic, it's tapping into incredibly important, and oft ignored, cultural moment.

  Imagine the iPhone - the clean design, the fluid interface. This polish makes it feel so natural to use, it's as if we're not using anything at all. It might feel so natural to use, you forget that this luxury item is made from conflict minerals, made from child labour. You might even forget that it's being used to spy on you, sell to you, and manipulate your worldview. Or that it's isolating you from not only your community, but from being present within your own surroundings, your own body. All this for the sake of growing profits for the already disgustingly wealthy few.

  Tyler presents us with an album that rejects the polished aesthetics of our dystopian present, while explicitly warning us about our dystopian present. All caps, DON'T TAP THE GLASS.

  Fave tracks: Sugar On My Tongue, Ring Ring Ring, I'll Take Care Of You.