His 18-track visual album Endless features collaborations with musicians such as James Blake, Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and Jazmine Sullivan, and the London Contemporary Orchestra provides much of the lovely background tunes thanks to its cello, violin, double bass and viola players. Fans lucky enough to be in one of those four cities Saturday posted images of a glossy magazine made to accompany the album, complete with track listing, a collaborators list and a CD.
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The teasing rapper from New Orleans dropped a 17-track album, titled “Blond”, late Saturday instead of the false flag “Boys Don’t Cry” album linked to an earlier August release.
In New York, the pop-up took over a magazine shop on the corner of Mulberry and Kenmare, with dozens of issues of Boys Don’t Cry inside glossy packaging arranged on the store’s racks.
Blonde follows the release of a teaser video album called Endless on Apple Music last week.
Listen to previews of each song on Frank Ocean’s “Blond” via Apple Music below. The single, “Nikes”, which Ocean released a video for on Friday.
And the year’s most sporadic music rollout goes to.
“I got two versions”.
The album, Blonde, has even more star power on it. His first album was “Channel Orange”.
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The album is also available to download on iTunes now. Sonically, there’s no dramatic shift from Endless, the “visual album” that appeared just two days ago: indeed it could be a continuation of that album. “Thank you all”, he wrote in a letter on his Tumblr.
