Even with combination bleacher-stomping/trunk-rattling drums and an F-bomb, 'See You Again' is a positively kaleidoscopic love song, tricked out with laser zaps, xylophones, strings, horns, and sugary lines like 'I'd give up my bakery to have a piece of your pie.' On 'Pothole,' a low-profile standout, Tyler approaches driving as a metaphor for life, laments his solitude and vehicular escapism, but then proudly asserts his lone-wolf status over the sheep: 'I'd rather drown in a pool by myself than fuck with they fleece.' While most of these songs are rife with anxiety and isolation, the open-hearted lyricism and wide-scoped productions, put together by an artist in peak form, make them immensely engrossing. The album contains another hard-hitting track in the form of 'I Ain't Got Time!,' with the rhymes ranging from routine threats to singular declarations ('Next line will have 'em like 'Whoa'/I been kissing white boys since 2004'), but its makeup is typified more by '911' and the similarly lively 'Find Your Wings,' off the preceding Cherry Bomb. Lonely,' where a longing Tyler, over a supreme dazed groove, sees adoring fans and fast cars - the latter self-effacingly acknowledged elsewhere as a recurring album theme - as inadequate fill-ins for one-on-one time. There was little indication from the pairing of the bare-knuckled blast 'Who Dat Boy' with '911/Mr. Going by the preceding lead double A-side, the album's essence was impossible to forecast. This is a major creative advancement, no slapdash repository of provocations and whims. album - marching-band drums, curlicue strings and synthesizers, candy-coated melodies galore - filled with purpose, lacking in aimless frivolity.

It's also the most radiant one, akin to a modern-day N.E.R.D.

Despite the coarseness of its alternate title, Scum Fuck Flower Boy, this is easily the least vulgar Tyler release. Proclaiming himself as Flower Boy T with that gravelly voice and irascible disposition befitting a proprietor of a rust-belt collision shop, Tyler, The Creator thrives on his paradoxical character and daily life throughout his self-produced fourth solo album.

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