The organ haunts from start to finish, the hook pierces through with a sharpened beauty. Solo – Both a tribute to and a condemning of single life.Be Yourself – Heady advice from one who cares, like a torch to guide you through the dark.One of the more fully produced tracks of the lot. Pink + White – A propulsive but shifting beat, keys and doubled-up vocals.One dull and clean, the other sparkling and reverbed. Ivy – More in focus, built around two guitar lines.Nikes – A powerful return to the public arena, never has that chipmunk effect been more affecting.A magazine, Boys Don’t Cry, also saw limited release in four select popup stores in LA, NY, London and Chicago. 48 hours later, his second official LP appeared. Until the full vid appeared a few weeks later in the form of a visual album entitled ‘Endless’. Then suddenly a looped video appears on his website… but that was just a false alarm. Over and over again until the very idea of a new Frank Ocean album became a running joke. Like clockwork, a new insider leak emerged and a new deadline was missed. Four years since Channel Orange tilted the world off its axis, it’s seemed as though the more rumours of a follow up there were, the more reclusive that Frank became. Not the most original joke, but it reminds me of Frank Ocean. You wait forever for one and then they all come at once”. He hadn’t scored in about a year before this match: “It’s just like London buses. While watching some football the other day, the commentator made a joke about a dude who’d just scored his second goal of the game.
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