It's refreshing to see artists taking as much time as they need to drop their body of work to the best of their ability. If Frank decides to take a full-time hiatus from the music industry, then so be it. The incident gives us the bigger picture in the world of music. In such a tragedy in Frank's life, no person would be fit to dwell in the limelight with a new album release. The main reason why this album wasn’t released was likely due to the devastating loss of Frank’s 18-year-old brother, Ryan Breaux. If the pandemic didn't break out, who knows if we would have the album in our hands. The line-up was announced before the first case. The music world came to a halt when the pandemic hit, and Ocean could’ve slid the album away for another time. Perhaps when a worldwide tour is possible and physical copies become available in local stores.įrank was scheduled to headline Coachella in 2020. Number one could be the messy events of 2020, Especially with COVID-19. We can detail several possibilities on why this album is missing. So, what went wrong? Fans started to catch onto the hype of the possibility of a new long-awaited album from the Californian songwriter. In fact, he is attractively lost.Despite the fact that the order of the pictures changed, and new ones were added, the concept remained clear. Seigfried captures a feeling of cosmic detachment: “I can’t relate to my peers/ I’d rather live outside/ I’d rather chip my pride than lose my mind out here.” Blonde is a collection of quiet moments from the man who’s worked hard to make himself the most talked about thing on the internet. Solo is the sweet, homoerotically charged account of the space left behind by a toking buddy who is gone (“Now your baby momma ain’t so vicious, all she wants is her picket fence”). You find yourself caring anew about the “I” of these songs, who is reflected in snatches of impressionistic poetry, in sunlight, summer smoke and boxer shorts. There is still the powerful sense of a veiled introvert, and of the unlikely intimacy he achieves within this pose. Unofficial import on yellow vinyl - Ocean has managed to preserve the musical personality that marked him out as special on 2012’s immersive, psychedelic R&B game-changer, Channel Orange.

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