The four-year wait is over. Even what’s been a long month of waiting has ended. Frank Ocean has finally released new music.
Each month for what’s seemed like forever, it appeared the Grammy award winning R&B artist was going to release his anticipated follow-up to his 2012 debut studio album masterpiece Channel Orange, titled Boys Don’t Cry. After multiple teases (and poking fun at himself for the frequent delays), Ocean dropped new music Thursday night.
Ocean released a visual album stream titled Endless through Apple Music. The 44-minute video features 18 tracks with some help from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, British solo artist James Blake and Grammy-nominated singer Jazmine Sullivan. The Endless stream featured slightly muddied versions of the tracks, as visuals showed Frank Ocean building a staircase in his warehouse.
You can watch the performance here. (Apple Music needed).
Fans of Ocean can enjoy the new visual album, while simultaneously anticipating more new music from the R&B crooner. Rolling Stone reports Endless is a different project from his anticipated new album. Boys Don’t Cry is no longer the name of his next project, but it’s still coming — this weekend. Ocean is giving his fans tons of new music, with multiple ways to experience and enjoy it. The deployment makes the excruciating wait more than worth it.
The next release from Ocean might be worth the massive, years-long hype. His next studio album is coming and soon. For now, we can listen to Endless on a loop and hope Ocean’s next release will be as good as it. Here’s the track list for Endless:
1. “Device Control”
2. “Alabama”
3. “U-N-I-T-Y”
4. “Commes Des Garcons”
5. “Wither”
6. “In Here Somewhere”
7. “Sideways”
8. “Deathwish (ASR)”
9. “Rushes To”
10. “At Your Best (You Are Love)”
11. “Mine”
12. Ambience 001: “In a Certain Way”
13. Ambience 002: “Honeybaby”
14. “Hublots”
15. “Slide on Me”
16. “Florida”
17. “Rushes”
18. “Higgs”
