@macaroninugget Thanks. After I posted it, I thought I thought it might have beeen off-putting to have some Internet rando suddenly appear make a post longer than a text book about an album he likes, but I' m glad to see you enjoyed it. FYI, Bastard comes in at second place. I love how raw and edgy it is, along with how alien the production sounds. Igor is third. I like its jazzy lofi sound. It also has a streak of edgy Tyler in all that touchy-feely that becomes more apparent with each listen.
TuffNuts
Wolf is far and away my favorite Tyler album. It came out during highschool so I hold a lot of nostalgia for it. I remember the first time my sister played Tamale in the car and I was hooked. When Igor came out in Summer 2019, I listened through Tyler's discogrpahy and I feel madly in love with Wolf. I listened to Slater a lot because the strings make me feel like I'm flying when I listen to it The line about Tyler turing 21 in the song resonated with me at the time since it turned 21 that summer. I love the album's use of percussion because it builds and maintains a lot of forward momentum. Every second of every song on Wolf is utilized to the fullest, which is something I can't say for weaker, more bloated albums like Goblin or Cherry Bomb. It occupies a very interesting place in Tyler's discogrpahy because it's a crossroads of the edgy Tyler of the late 2000s and early 2010s and the touchy-feely Tyler of today. I love the story it tells and the raw emotional quality to it. To me what makes an album great is that you can listen to it a bunch of times and discover a new favorite song. That happens to me everytime I listen to Wolf, with songs like IFHY, Cowboy, Parking Lot, Rusty Pigs, etc. I consider it the highwater mark of the Odd Future era, which is an era I look back at very fondly. It's like OF's last big hurrah, because they all drifted apart not too long after Wolf. Everything about it strikes very a powerful chord with me. I'm sorry I wrote a post longer than a book of me gushing over this one album, but I feel so passionate about Wolf. Plus the album art is just so iconic.
TL;DW Old man writes incomprehensible War and Peace length post over a 10+ year old album he likes because of highschool nostalgia and being genuinely great.
macaroninugget
Bro have to agree with you, wolf is one of my favs plus nice paragraph it was a good read :]