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- Summary: The surprise release from rapper Tyler, The Creator features only 10 tracks.
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- Record Label: Columbia
- Genre(s): Rap
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Jul 23, 2025His attitude always sells it all, anyway, and the acrobatics remain intermittently impressive. He threads all the sounds and vibes with an auteur’s aesthetic creativity and Frankensteinian instincts for genre fusion.
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Jul 23, 2025With this album, Tyler is grabbing us by the shoulders to convince us to live as though no one’s watching. He’s trying to keep us moving and off of our phones, even if it’s for just 29 minutes at a time.
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Jul 22, 2025DON'T TAP emphasises that, really, he’s simply multifaceted. We all have radically different sides to who we are, and Tyler’s committed to expressing as much of himself as possible, from the cliché to the novel, the ugly to the beautiful, the cold-blooded to the empathetic.
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Aug 4, 2025Over the past eight years a strong case has been made for Tyler being the most interesting figure in modern rap music, and despite the low-stakes presentation Don’t Tap The Glass furthers this case with its inventive arrangements, fiery verses and club-ready production.
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Jul 24, 2025Despite its big tent and low stakes, DON’T TAP THE GLASS is a record only Tyler could make: retro but not nostalgic; tender but steely; jangly yet slick.
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Aug 18, 2025It’s good to see Tyler having some real fun with it, but for a 28-minute project that should be all killer no filler, DON'T TAP THE GLASS warrants more bite.
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Jul 25, 2025Don’t Tap the Glass isn’t a failure so much as a competent dead end. The beats sound good, the transitions are clean, and the vibes are mostly all right. And yet, for an album supposedly about breaking free of self-consciousness and moving with abandon, it’s hard to imagine anything more performative. Or, perhaps more damning, anything less danceable.