Given the huge success of CHANNEL ORANGE, and because these fully-produced collaborations were the only credible insight into the sound of his activities besides the rough demo “Memrise” and some shoddy fan recordings from outside of a listening party, Ocean enthusiasts could only imagine his next work(s) to reach an even higher pinnacle than before.Īs someone who religiously checked the Frank Ocean Subreddit every day last July when the album was originally announced to be released, I found myself in hyperventilation the minute he posted the cryptic library due date slip on his website this summer. If this point is not made clear by his own music, then it must be obvious by his actions.įollowing the 2012 release of CHANNEL ORANGE, Ocean has notoriously spent the last few years basically in hiding, but casual fans and committed r/FrankOcean lurkers alike knew well enough from his mysterious Tumblr posts and the occasional collaboration with artists like Beyonce, Kanye West, and James Blake that he may be out of sight, but definitely not out of mind. But to ask the question twice seems to posit an answer that may come from a deeper rhetorical level, and we all know Ocean is not the type to serve us that which lives solely on the surface. The very last words we hear on BLONDE, Frank Ocean’s third full-length album, are: “ How far is a light year? How far is a light year?” Well, technically it’s nearly six trillion miles (which is the distance on a timeline between Ocean’s last album, CHANNEL ORANGE, and now). Favorite Tracks: “Nikes,” “Solo,” “Self Control,” “Nights,” “Solo (Reprise),” “Seigfried”
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