Lardner Park, Lardner
Rapper brought his outré performance style to headline Beyond the Valley in his first Australian tour since 2013
Since Tyler, the Creator’s solo career began at the tail end of the 2000s, the 28-year-old rapper and producer has been perfecting an outré and utterly compelling performance style. It hinges on a delightful, occasionally gruesome tastelessness usually associated with camp icons like John Waters. Inaccessible indie-rap operas are framed as free-associative conversations with a therapist; pop tracks double as murder ballads; a staunch and widely criticised obsession with slurs culminate not in any kind of apology, but in a gorgeous and gob-smacking coming-out record, 2017’s Scum Fuck Flower Boy.
Igor, 2019’s dizzyingly produced and emotionally wounded breakup record, drove home the scope and ingenuity of Tyler’s art, the album’s unlikely blend of horror score sonics and top 40 songwriting a fitting next step in the musician’s journey. On Monday, on the second night of Beyond the Valley festival in the Gippsland town of Lardner, Tyler stepped onstage for his first Victorian show in six years, delivering an inspiring and thrilling career-spanning set that capitalised on Igor’s gaudy, theatrical heart.
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