Goblin
by Tyler, The Creator
  • Record Label: XL
  • Release Date: May 10, 2011
User Score
7.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 258 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 170 out of 258
  2. Mixed: 63 out of 258
  3. Negative: 25 out of 258
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  1. Wrong_Opinions
    Dec 19, 2020
    6
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    I can’t stand another second of this album with the horrocore lyrics talking about rape and murder and.... this is the creation of a depressed teenager and that’s all I can describe it as
  2. SuperbaDMIke
    Jun 15, 2022
    6
    This album at first was great but then decent in the discography of TTC. Yonkers is the best song along with some others.
  3. andrilitvynchuk
    Aug 9, 2023
    6
    I liked that album when I was a kid but after maturing I guess it is just ok. Still, there are a lot of good songs
  4. n00ne
    May 27, 2011
    5
    Being shocking for the sake of being shocking, or being shocking because it "sounds cool" (Tyler's words), is the opposite of compelling. It's down right boring. Tyler and his cohorts in OFWGKTA are being compared to the likes of Wu Tang Clan and 2Pac. Those a very generous and lazy comparisons, considering Wu Tang and 2Pac actually had something to say. He's more akin to Insane ClownBeing shocking for the sake of being shocking, or being shocking because it "sounds cool" (Tyler's words), is the opposite of compelling. It's down right boring. Tyler and his cohorts in OFWGKTA are being compared to the likes of Wu Tang Clan and 2Pac. Those a very generous and lazy comparisons, considering Wu Tang and 2Pac actually had something to say. He's more akin to Insane Clown Posse. Except the music and rhymes are a bit better.… Expand
  5. wololooo
    Mar 12, 2012
    5
    As with most Odd Future releases (with the exception of EARL and Frank Ocean's Nostalgia, Ultra), Goblin is inconsistant, gimmicky, and really nothing special. The lazy production and horrorcore-esque lyrics go to show that being different for the sake of being different doesn't always equate to good music.
  6. simonsays
    Jun 14, 2013
    5
    When it's good, it's pretty good. When it's bad....yikes. The lows are too low for this thing to deserve any higher of a rating. Too often the beats are murky and sound like they were made by an amateur on some garbage computer program. In fact, this whole album just sounds like one long angry rant. Don't tell yourself it has a deeper intellectual meaning, because Tyler himself says inWhen it's good, it's pretty good. When it's bad....yikes. The lows are too low for this thing to deserve any higher of a rating. Too often the beats are murky and sound like they were made by an amateur on some garbage computer program. In fact, this whole album just sounds like one long angry rant. Don't tell yourself it has a deeper intellectual meaning, because Tyler himself says in interviews that it doesn't...he just likes to make music for shock value. It DOES have a few good tracks though for sure (Yonkers, Sandwitches, Analog). Bastard was better overall… Expand
  7. master_sebo
    Jun 8, 2020
    5
    TtC's Goblin is a decent, alternative hip hop record, which depicts the dark and masked psychic profile of a nineteen-year-old man, definitely shocking the listener. The album has a really good opening part, with tracks like Radicals and Transylvania, where Tyler succeeds in being a subversive, offbeat artisti, not mentioning Tron Cat or the nonconformist-love-song Her. However, the secondTtC's Goblin is a decent, alternative hip hop record, which depicts the dark and masked psychic profile of a nineteen-year-old man, definitely shocking the listener. The album has a really good opening part, with tracks like Radicals and Transylvania, where Tyler succeeds in being a subversive, offbeat artisti, not mentioning Tron Cat or the nonconformist-love-song Her. However, the second part of the record kind of disappoint the expectancies, with weak tracks like Sandwitches and Analog: furthermore, Window left me sort of deceived, due to me expecting a track with beat-shifts, or variation in the tone adopted by the artists involved (instead, we got a song that sounds the same for its whole length: 8 minutes!). Sometimes you definitely get the feeling that Tyler tried to experiment without the rationally conscious ideas necessary to create really good experimental stuff. Not a bad album, but the parts where you think "oh, that could have been done better" are way too much.… Expand

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Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 37 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 37
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 37
  3. Negative: 1 out of 37
  1. Mojo
    Dec 12, 2011
    60
    Irksome and intriguing, compelling and calculated, Goblin confounds at every turn. [Aug. 2011, p. 104]
  2. No Ripcord
    Sep 20, 2011
    80
    This album then delivers anger, honesty and arrogance, all in sporadic scatter-gun fashion: the overriding feeling is confused, uncertain, often unreasonable, but ultimately well intentioned.
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  3. The Wire
    Aug 17, 2011
    60
    It's a shame that the the young skate rat seems to be so caught up in his own hype, as beneath the bluster and amped-up angst, there is something interesting going on. [Jul 2011, p.54]
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