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Blonde is the second studio album by the American singer Frank Ocean. It was released on August 20, 2016, as a timed exclusive on both the iTunes Store and Apple Music, which followed immediately after the August 19 release of Ocean's video album Endless.
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Spacious, bare, cryptic and overwhelming.
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An album that sounds like a bedroom at 3am. Half the songs do not have drums and you do not notice. Nights is two songs and both are better than most albums.
Frank Ocean built a house with no doors and left the windows open. Nothing on it resolves and that is the resolution.
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(Boys Don’t Cry)The R&B singer’s new album has slow-burn power and poetry enough to raise it beyond its gimmicky release strategy
Mr. Ocean has released two new albums, a music video and an art magazine that display his musical and nonmusical talents.
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Metacritic 87/100 · AnyDecentMusic? 8.4/10
17 tracks, 60 minutes.
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“Is this Frank Ocean's best work?”
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“Is the ambiguity a cop-out?”
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