Fans have been eagerly awaiting a sophomore album from Ocean for the past four years. “Especially all of you who never let me forget I had to finish”. He announced the news on his Boys Don’t Cry website.
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Turns out if you want to follow Frank Ocean’s latest album release cycle all you have to do is be an insomniac.
Singer Frank Ocean dropped his new studio album last night – are we classing it as his second or third album? – titled Blond and we’ve not stopped listening to it all day.
Fans had been teased on the BoysDontCry.co website with different carpentry shots and a man presumed to be Ocean on the website for the past 2 weeks. There’s a visual album, pop-up stores and the final product, Blonde.
The video is actually available for people who don’t subscribe to Apple Music to see.
Ocean’s forthcoming LP will be his follow-up to Channel Orange, which debuted in 2012 and won a Grammy for Best Urban Contemporary Album.
The Frank Ocean waiting game has taken an unexpected turn.
An Apple Music representative told Pitchfork that there is a lot of Frank Ocean content coming to Apple’s music service, and the Endless visual album is just the start of it.
The visual album is available for streaming exclusively on Apple Music. It made a surprise appearance as the title of a 360-page zine handed out at pop-up shops in NYC, Chicago, Los Angeles and London, according to Rolling Stone.
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The 45-minute video was posted on Apple Music, and features collaborations from musicians such as singer Jazmine Sullivan and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead, and more than a dozen songs, including “Wither” and “Mine”. Perhaps the new album can be found up there?
