In its entirety, the project is an intimately curated project made up of a music album, visual album, limited edition magazine, fashion photography, poetry and personal essays. This was followed up by the main component, the 17-track music album Blonde. I quickly tuned out the world, sent a text to my cousin to enlist me under her family plan to apple music, and tuned into about an hours worth of spectral imagery set to a soundtrack of hauntingly beautiful instrumentals and demos from the singer. Endless, the video album, was the first component to drop. Which I find as more than enough justification for watching literal paint dry on a livestream in anticipation for the R&B messiah’s return. Four years of seemingly hopeless waiting amounted to the release of two albums in two days. Yet, in the true, surreal nature of 2016, rain is falling outside my window in Los Angeles as I write about his latest release Blonde being one of the best albums of the year.Īfter flurries of hype that surrounded his return to music and a multitude of false release dates, Ocean’s long awaited ode to the digital aesthetic of the millennial age, Blonde, finally dropped in August. With a drought in California, four years since Frank Ocean’s last album Channel Orange and a heartbreaking last minute cancellation of a headlining set at FYF in 2015 (#neverforget), it has been hard to hold onto the idea that rain or Frank Ocean would be a sight I would ever see again.
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