Ocean is vulnerable, perceptive, and arrogant at once. It’s the kind of album that teaches you how to listen to it, and the ultimate lesson is simply about the person who made it. The results are intuitively moving and intellectually confounding: You’re mesmerized, then annoyed, then mesmerized, then crying, then crying, then hyped up, then crying, and so on. To nail the beauty and ache and confusion of combing through one’s own past, he liquified genre barriers, recorded his voice with a variety of distorting techniques, treated the entire concept of rhythm as optional, and ditched the pop directive to simplify life experiences into relatable, salable units.

Love you.” Let ’s hope he loves us enough to never put us through this wait again.Frank Ocean has approximated the mess of human memory on the staggering Blond(e), an album that represents a rebellion against record labels and against spelling but more than anything against musical convention. “Especially those of you who never let me forget I had to finish. “I had the time of my life making all of this. Shortly after the album dropped, Ocean took to his Tumblr to thank (and lightly tease) his fans. Here ’s a list of Blonde ’s contributors:Īlbum contributors /XLNOXTZEIS- steven j. The tracklisting on the version of the album inside the magazine, however, is reportedly different, making Frank’s cryptic Tumblr post about having “two versions” seem even more valid now:įutura Free- steven j. Inside the Frank Ocean pop up in Nolita 💕✨ you get a magazine with the album inside! I'm dying 😩😩😩 /Y84Mba3thH- Ashley Outrageous August 20, 2016 The album is also available at pop-up stores in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and London, which are distributing copies of a magazine called Boys Don’t Cry that includes a CD copy of Blonde inside. It’s called Blonde according to Apple Music, though the album’s art is stylized Blond. You can stream or purchase it at Apple Music it also premiered on Beats Radio. Following Friday’s release of the visual album Endless and this morning’s release of the music video for “Nikes,” Frank Ocean finally made good on his promise to drop the follow-up to 2012’s Channel Orange.

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