Oblivious to the local music scene is a 24 year old
American singer-songwriter named FRANK OCEAN who happens to be heating up the
World Wide Web after unleashing his new album, “channel ORANGE”, and later
stating how he has fallen in love with someone of the same sex as revealed in
the album’s liner notes. In the past few weeks, Frank Ocean has nearly gotten
1.5 Million tweets and has been featured on 5,192 blogs. The album has also
trended worldwide and has been tweeted 154,887 times. SPIN Magazine expressed
that "A lot of people are going to
love this man (Ocean) very soon." People Magazine stated that “channel ORANGE is not just the best debut
of 2012 – it’s the best album period.”
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| Frank Ocean |
But who is Frank Ocean? In a world that
divvies up art by genre, that constantly seeks to quantify cool, he is
impossible to miss. His music style is reminiscent of R&B singer D’Angelo’s
sexy slow jams, Robin Thicke’s smooth falsetto voice and Maxwell’s
honest-to-goodness classic soul sound. Frank had long labored behind the
curtain – writing for Justin Bieber, John Legend and Brandy among others. A
self-released mixtape entitled “Nostalgia, Ultra” in 2011 led him to critical
acclaim gaining the interest of recording artists such as Kanye West, Beyonce
and Jay-Z. This milestone in his career ultimately led him to the birth of his
debut studio album “channel ORANGE”.
“channel ORANGE” includes seventeen tracks which feature the three
charting singles, “Thinkin’ ‘Bout You”,
“Pyramids” and “Sweet Life”. Frank
Ocean has quickly proven himself to be among the most gifted singer-songwriters
of his generation with this new album. His major-label debut swings from
Stevie-style keyboard breeziness to 90s bap and R&B to mystic psych rock to
crunching 8-bit funk without thinking twice. Indeed, his first studio album
already feels like a genuine classic.
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