Tyler, the Creator, who teased new music on social media yesterday, has announced that his new album, ‘Chromakopia’, will be released on October 28 – a Monday, breaking from the music industry’s standard Friday release date.

No further information was released other than that a box set edition of the album is now available for pre-order, but a two-minute teaser music video released yesterday suggests that at least the album’s lead single, “ St. Chroma”, has a dark undertone. It opens with a masked character, apparently Tyler, leading a line of masked people marching through the desert – his hair is in a comical, bunny style, but the black and white video and the song’s whispered, almost unintelligible rap and music – which ranges from sung vocals to a twisted chorus – has an ominous atmosphere. Sure enough, the people all march into a long container with the word ‘Chromakopia’ painted on it – then the video changes color and a hand is seen detonating a detonator and the container is destroyed in a massive explosion, killing all people inside.

The album will be Tyler’s first new music since the release early last year of the expanded version of his excellent 2021 album ‘Call Me If You Get Lost’. He performed at the Austin City Limits festival earlier this month and said that this would likely be the last show he would play for a while — which makes the new music extra curious, since his annual Camp Flog festival in Los Angeles is scheduled to continue for a while. month from now; No lineup has been announced, but the festival often announces its lineup just a few days before.