Singer Frank Ocean’s highly anticipated second album Blonde is now available for purchase.
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The album itself has 17 tracks; some reported that the physical copy has a slightly different tracklisting to the version streaming on Apple Music.
After fits and starts, rumors and innuendo, Frank Ocean finally released his sophomore album on Saturday night. On Friday, Ocean released another longform piece of music called Endless, a 45-minute, 18-track “visual album” which takes a freeform approach to songwriting, and which the Guardian described as “brilliantly confounding”. The rapper, who had announced his release in April 2015, titled his new album, Blonde, rather Boys Do not Cry, as was mentioned. The singer unveiled it on Saturday (Aug. 20) at his temporary pop-up shop locations in New York, London, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
Frank Ocean’s new album was actually supposed to be released earlier this month on August 5th but a report about the upcoming album was published which caused the artist and his team to lose the element of surprise.
There is also some ambiguity about the album’s title.
The zine, which some fans are already selling on eBay for $1,000, features a collection of stunning photographs, illustrations, poems and essays by several artists, including Ocean himself.
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Blonde – which is the follow-up to Ocean’s Grammy-winning 2012 debut LP, Channel Orange – features an array of collaborators, including André 3000, James Blake, Jamie xx, Kendrick Lamar and Beyoncé, who Ocean previously collaborated with on her 2013 song “Superpower”. His voice eerily speeded up, Ocean sings that Martin “looked just like me”. Which is basically every one of y’all.
