A representative from Apple Music told Pitchfork to “keep an eye out this weekend for more from Frank”.
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But, while everyone has been eagerly awaiting the album Boys Don’t Cry, which has been expected to come out since July of previous year, Frank set the internet ablaze with Endless, a 45-minute visual album that was accompanied by a stream of the singer building a set of stairs from scratch.
By “all of this”, Ocean’s referring to visual album Endless, released Thursday, and Blonde, a collection that dropped Saturday.
The long-awaited follow-up to 2012’s channel ORANGE made its debut in a video stream on Frank’s website, BoysDontCry.co, which was accompanied by footage of him building a spiral staircase in a warehouse.
Read Pitchfork’s interview with Wolfgang Tillmans, the composer whose track “Device Control” was used as the intro and outro for Ocean’s album Endless.
Album hype has surrounded Frank Ocean since it was reported in late July that his third album would be released that week.
As another added bonus under the “album contributors” section, Frank revealed the Blond credits, which includes an impressive list of heavy-hitting collaborators.
At the bottom are four addresses of locations in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and London.
Its been a busy week for the singer/songwriter Frank Ocean.
The video features, among other things, Ocean on fire wearing a Jenny Holzer shirt, a nude female swimmer in a large tank of water, and a rapping Chihuahua.
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As it turns out, the inspiration arrives from renowned German artist Wolfgang Tillmans, who also releases musical outputs under his own name and as part of a group called Fragile. He appeared on two songs from Jay Z and Kanye West’s collaborative album, “Watch the Throne”.
