Frank Ocean, 'Boys Don't Cry'

this is happening

http://boysdontcry.co/

A play-by-play for this is kind of hard because it's all a shapeless blur...

oh ffs frankie

actual music is playing

it sounds...pretty good?

I've been meaning to fuck with you on ILM

I'm watching the terminator

feel like frank would want it this way

there's some really good stuff in here but alas ilm is over the man another casualty of 2016 rip

idk I think I can wait until he's not drilling over playback

sometimes i'm not sure who ilm isn't over (except, inexplicably tbh, the 1975)

Be careful on that scaffolding, Frank!

"it" is on Apple Music now

Rolling Stone has confirmed that Endless is a different project from Boys Don't Cry, the singer's highly-anticipated follow-up to 2012's Channel Orange. Apple will release that album this weekend.

lol at the last track of this

lol @ how do I crop your new bitch out my vine

"Ugh, this sounds like James Blake or something." * Reads an article, finds out it was recorded with James Blake :( *

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

xpost kanye is 43 I feel like ppl forget his age

43 year old 3 year old

loved ocean's prior work but blonde, even after multiple listens, is just a nonstarter for me.

Looks like no one really said anything about "DHL" when it was posted upthread, but the second half of that track is incredibly addictive, my favorite thing he's done in rap mode. Really seemed like a new album was coming soon coming soon, don't know what happened

I’m 50 and I still adore Blond, it was a very important record to me at the time, flaws and all. So impatient for the next one, which I thought was about to drop at the start of 2020.

frank ocean is the most overrated and overvalued pop singer in a long time.

and he's still able to manage at least two or three songs every album that are complete smashes. so idk.

i'm an old white man, btw.

you'd be mad to pull frank to bits. what is to criticize? coolest contemporary voice in music. his vocal alone is enough to warrant status. blonde, i can't think of a better full length from the last decade that's so of its time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qKP32GYiks

still think Nikes is not a good song tho

― guardians of the gums: i am tooth (voodoo chili), Saturday, August 25, 2018 1:50 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

RIP Pepsi

you'd be mad to pull frank to bits. what is to criticize? coolest contemporary voice in music. his vocal alone is enough to warrant status. blonde, i can't think of a better full length from the last decade that's so of its time.

RIP criticism

i mean cool, opinions, good, i wanna hear you tell me what's bad about it. it's deliberately fragmented, confused, emotional, delicate. aloof... it's a fine self-portrait. feels like an elliott smith record to me or something - i'd say that without the sample in there, too

The bloodline to singer-songwriter stuff is exactly what puts me off, actually, so otm.

or, as i like to say: one man's trash is another man's less smelly trash.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61fhqJRhbhL._SY355_.jpg

i rest my case.