12. Tyler, The CreatorFlower Boy
I think it’s hard to choose a Tyler, The Creator album – it could have been Goblin very easily – but Scum Fuck Flower Boy is crazy. It’s such a beautiful thing to watch an artist grow, so that when they do put that album out, you completely understand 100% where and how they’ve got there. I followed him for the duration of his career.
I was doing some agency job – it was a really shit job – and I put this album on and completely forgot I was even at the job. Completely fucked the job, by the way, it was this really stupid copying and pasting thing, and it didn’t make any sense. It was about 600 copies of something I had to do and it was really quite debilitating and quite jarring.
But listening to this album centered me a lot, because clearly he was going through change. I was picking up on a lot of parts of the songs where he was talking about sexuality, so it felt like being close to him whilst doing a really shitty job.
