Tyler, the Creator and the now-defunct Odd Future set out to change the world of rap music with their rowdy live shows and early mixtapes like Tyler's macabre Bastard, and they were successful, but Tyler actually made his best album yet by toning things down: 2019's IGOR. Tyler began his evolution towards a more melodic, soulful sound on 2015's Cherry Bomb and even more so on 2017's Flower Boy, but IGOR made the full leap. It was simultaneously some of his most experimental and some of his most accessible music yet, and definitely his most melodic. It's not even really a rap album.
IGOR found Tyler leaning most heavily into his singing and his production work, but he quickly reminded the world that Tyler, the Rapper wasn't gone forever. The following year, he showed up with vicious guest verses on albums from Freddie Gibbs, Westside Gunn, and Lil Yachty. Now Tyler follows IGOR with Call Me If You Get Lost, and it finds him fusing the melodic experimentation of IGOR with his continued knack for clear, aggressive rapping. It's nice to hear Tyler rapping on his own music again, after spending a year using other people's records to remind us how good of a rapper he is, but Call Me If You Get Lost isn't a return to form or anything; Tyler is still evolving.