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Long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible episodes.

This is episode 5 of our season-long examination of Tyler, the Creator's Igor.

I'm your host Cole Kushner. Oh, yeah. Last time I dissect we examined Igor's fifth track running out of time, a beautiful

emotional ballad in which Tyler began to realize that his opportunity to win

its crush over may be slipping away.

Up against the clock, Tyler became more direct about the obstacles he felt were standing

in their way, his crush's reservations about accepting their sexuality and the crush's

girlfriend.

Running out of time then ended on a gorgeous instrumental outro,

which is abruptly cut off by Igor's next track,

the subject of her episode today, New Magic War. new magic wine. Why? Sometimes.

Sometimes you got

Sometimes you got to

sometimes you got to close the door to open a window. New Magic 1 was written and produced by Tyler Coma and features background vocals by Santi Gold and Jesse Wilson. The sequence from running out of time into New Magic Wand continues the album's focus on song-to-song transitions.

Recall that the last chord of Igor's theme bridged into the first chord of earthquake.

The 3-1 countdown at the end of earthquake blended seamlessly into the 4 count at the top of I Think,

and the final Court of I Think set up the first Court of Exactly what you run from.

Now, rather than a quart of transition, the link from running out of time into new magic wand is thematic,

as the outro of running out of time is abruptly cut short, as if time is indeed run out.

There's also a bit of clever word play in Gerard Carmichael's brief introduction.

Sometimes you got to close a door to open a window, as sometimes continues the thematic emphasis on time.

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