The Odd Future co-founder announced his Chromakopia album’s release date on October 17th, which will drop just a few days before Halloween.
Tyler, the Creator unveiled the release date a day after sharing a Chromakopia teaser. The Grammy Award-winning rapper/producer revealed the title in a video snippet called “St. Chroma.”
Chromakopia will be Tyler’s first album since 2021’s Call Me When You Get Lost, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It was the second No. 1 album of his career. The Chromakopia website links to Tyler’s Golf Wang online store, offering fans a variety of box sets to pre-order. No further information was released except that a box set edition of the album is now available for pre-order, but a two-minute teaser video clip released yesterday suggests that at least the first single from the album, “St. Chroma,” has a dark undertone. It starts with a masked character, apparently Tyler, leading a series of masked people marching through the desert — his hair is in a comical, rabbit-ish do but the black and white video and the song’s whispered, almost unintelligible rapping and music — which ranges from chanted vocals to a warped chorus — have an ominous vibe. Sure enough, the people all march into a long container with the word “Chromakopia” painted onto it — then the video turns to color and a hand is seen setting off a detonator and the container is destroyed in a massive explosion, with all the people inside.