Frank Ocean, 'Boys Don't Cry'

i'm enjoying endless a great deal. it's bleak and wintry and lonely, and frank is the fire that keeps you warm

does he build a bonfire out of that staircase

i hope he installs a guiderail to go along with it

It sounds OK. Got kind of a demo-y quality to it. Kind of like his spin on a JJ mixtape? There's a place for it but it's hard to get too excited knowing there's a (presumably) real album just around the corner.

that closing track though :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

The first of today's many annoyances: a certain publication named Frank Ocean a singer-songwriter and Jazmine Sullivan an "R&B performer."

I'm already seeing "brilliantly confounding" and "gorgeous mystery." I'm homicidal already.

i think the album's good but that's certainly a reach lol

i guess i'm halfway through this and dude doubled down on the aspects of him i found least interesting i.e. fragmentary songs tied together by a kind of "stream of consciousness" design. hope the "album" is meatier

this feels entirely useless to me outside the isley cover

the fake kraftwerk song at the end that i think is shaming me for having a phone, that one's fun

nm that's apparently a song by wolfgang tillmans

i thought using that song was a bit of a self-own on frank's part, but who knows

I'm already seeing "brilliantly confounding" and "gorgeous mystery." I'm homicidal already.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, August 19, 2016 12:00 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

imo that sort of overpraise was way too predictable to be mad at

the brilliantly confounding self-own

self-own = cell phone. hm

you used to call me on my self-own

The first of today's many annoyances: a certain publication named Frank Ocean a singer-songwriter and Jazmine Sullivan an "R&B performer."

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, August 19, 2016 11:59 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf these are derived from the artists, JS has always been comfortable being called R&B, FO hasn't

yes he transcends R&B

Transcends it into sweet nothingness.

I tried listening to this while hangry and almost threw away my phone.

you used to call me on my self-own

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 August 2016 17:26 (1 hour ago) Permalink

LOL

I wrote about it
http://time.com/4460139/frank-ocean-visual-album-endless/

So... there's a video with naked women on horses and tits being sucked now.

http://www.thefader.com/2016/08/20/frank-ocean-nikes-video

http://pitchfork.com/news/67679-frank-ocean-drops-new-album-blonde-listen/?mbid=social_facebook

It's go

it's no

I love the guitar arrangement/layering on "Ivy."

That list of contributors though.

Could have done without that minute and a half rant against weed on track 4. Kills a vibe.

That list of contributors though.

― Popture

well, I did hear "Here, There, and Everywhere" and Andre 3000.

Could have done without that minute and a half rant against weed on track 4. Kills a vibe.

weird, feel like weed is one of the only ways to access frank's songs

second track on this is the best frank ocean song I've ever heard

yup

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/82/BlondeAlternate_-_Frank_Ocean.jpeg/900px-BlondeAlternate_-_Frank_Ocean.jpeg

franklife

well, it could still need some proper songs.

lol @ the proper album being just as nothingy as the demos or whatever they were

also HE CAN'T SING

oh god the technophobe facebook interlude

lonny can sing
https://youtu.be/bTjEGP-TnSA

Did anyone see on the list of guest musicians Fish and Anthony Phillips??...about the most interesting thing about the album unfortunately...On first listen 'Siegfried' was the only thing that stuck and that was written years ago...will probably go back to it but not in a hurry...

is it just me or is this album terribly mastered

i like this better than channel orange but it'd only have to display the slightest animation for me to do that. all of the songs basically have one structure, i.e. start off in a place really ugly and unsettling and slowly get pretty. way too many nothing interludes, and having andre in the center makes the two halves seem duller than they are

I really like "nights, "ivy" and "good guy" so far, about halfway through rn

thus far the only novel criticism of it I've seen is coming from brad's points in this thread, lol most everything else positive or negative - particularly negative - is predictable as hell

maybe my speakers are breaking but the high synth tones in "siegfried" are making them vibrate in a really unpleasant, ear-splitting way and i guess the way to make me not want to listen to an album again is to master it so uncarefully that parts of it hurt to hear

Here's what I wrote on a certain critic's wall last night:

...too monochromatic, too reliant on strumming; he's importing hip-hop (e.g. Andre 3000) into introspective material beholden to a private argot of heartbreak. I listened and waited for a tempo change, any change (maybe I wasn't listening close enough). He's closer to John Legend than his bros Earl Sweatshirt and co. but w/no interest in arenas.

xp I haven't gotten to that song yet and am listening on fancy headphones, we'll see. as for the sound in general it's pretty but also kinda...thin I guess? is that part of what you mean? definitely not enough low end.

oh yeah the record as a whole is super trebly and glassy

the first two songs are the best imo, possibly because the rest of the so-called tunes follow their template

i like "nights" a lot

Did anyone see on the list of guest musicians Fish and Anthony Phillips??

Wait, hold on, as in the former Marillion singer and the long-departed Genesis cofounder? He should have asked Steven Wilson in for a UK-prog-through-the-generations trifecta.