“He released my complete original track as the end of this incredible album”. Boys Don’t Cry (or whatever it’s called now) was originally expected to release back in July 2015.
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Frank Ocean has finally released a visual stream for his new Endless album, and it is a precursor to his official Channel Orange follow-up.
With listeners everywhere processing Ocean’s latest creation in real time, we asked NPR Music critics Jason King and Ann Powers to share their first impressions. We can now add Frank Ocean’s to the list of pop releases surrounded by misinformation and controlled by someone disinterested in getting with the program.
As well as having the album inside the magazine, it also featured high-fashion photos, poems written by Ocean, some short stories, an outline for a television show and interviews with Lil’ B and Om’Mas Keith.
According to the production credits for Endless, Frank Ocean enlisted the help of James Blake, Sampha, Jonny Greenwood (of Radiohead), and up-and-coming guitarist Alex G on the album’s instrumentation.
The sophomore album from the artist is no longer called Boys Don’t Cry, the very title the musician was teasing his fans with.
Ride the Frank Ocean wave over to Apple Music to hear Blonde in full, and listen to previews of each song below.
This is not the first time that Apple has released Ocean playlists prior to his upcoming LPs, and these include The Rise of Frank Ocean, Frank Ocean Samples and Frank Ocean’s Most Shazamed Tracks. Friday to make his fans wait, the artist has posted Endless experimental video album of 45 minutes.
Ocean had said the original name for his second album would be “Boys Don’t Cry”.
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Earlier this month (Aug16) he hit headlines after posting a cryptic live video stream on his website, showing an Apple Music-sponsored black and white video feed of a warehouse.
