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. The 17-track album (the first one is Nikes) credits Kanye West, David Bowie, Kendrick Lamar, Jamie xx, the Beatles, Beyonce, Tyler the Creator and more.
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Instead, the name Boys Don’t Cry applies to a print publication that customers received when they purchased his album Blonde at pop-up shop locations installed in London, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago.
Frank Ocean released a “visual album” late Thursday.
Frank Ocean has released another new album.
Less than two days after premiering his surprise visual album Endless, the enigmatic singer has delivered Blonde, the follow-up to 2012’s Channel Orange.
Fans of singer Frank Ocean queued around the block after a London newsagent was converted into a pop-up shop giving away his new album and magazine. The glossy features photographs taken by Ocean, an interview with his mother, horoscopes and the lyrics of a rap called “The MacDonalds Man” by Kanye West. Listed as Blonde on Apple Music, the sleeve artwork spells it Blond.
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The 12 songs and interludes, including an earlier released version of Aaliyah’s cover of the Isley Brothers’ “At Your Best (You Are Love)”, runs for 45 minutes over a black-and-white film shot by Francisco Soriano. He has already released a music video for the first track on this album called Nikes. “Especially all of you who never let me forget I had to finish. Which is basically every one of y’all”, Ocean wrote on his official Tumblr blog. His voice eerily speeded up, Ocean sings that Martin “looked just like me”.
