You fall through this playground Ocean builds steadily across the project. You don’t know where one song starts and the other begins and the strength of each song relies on the one before and after it. To me, this album is best consumed as it is – an album. And Frank Ocean’s lyricsĮncapsulate that process of trying to figure out those answers we need. The most comforting thing aboutĪll of it is that maybe everyone can be feeling this. We want to embrace but are just too afraid to. We understand that sometimes what others markĪs success isn’t what success can mean to you.

We begin to grapple with the idea that love is something you work Understanding of how our thoughts and actions can affect others begins toĬrystalize. Where things sort of fell in the right place. Last summer is just another memory for you to look back on a simpler time

World could get is when someone just isn’t that into you or your friend leaves Things are fixed and the most lopsided the Life as you know it is ending but the horizon is in that sweet hue of The last summer before college or the last summer before setting out for a new ORANGE to me always felt like the last summer. Some fans look back to his first album as his best, but I disagree. Is key to why the album can be so divisive: people either love it or hate it. Offer an intimate look into his mind I’ve never felt that exposed to someone’s It mainly comes from Frank Ocean’s lyrics and the delivery.

But regardless of what the situation is, I always leave with Since become either one of two things: a mind boggling experience or justīackground noise. Things became mechanical and I was wrestling with restrained feelings of missing home. Most of my friends were just busy with their lives so everything felt rushed and disconnected. I was learning about the dynamics of the workplace (as soul crushing as that sounds).

I was reevaluating what different relationships meant, chiefly friendships and romantic partnerships. I had been living alone for a year and things had become very different from when I graduated from university. Pitchfork who? We exceptionally introduce an album grading system to Revolver, presenting to you 10 classic albums that should be a 10/10.įrank Ocean’s Blonde came out around the summer of 2016.

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