6/20/2023 0 Comments Pyramids frank ocean cleanUnlike Frank’s R&B and pop contemporaries, he’s not relying on drum patterns to evoke emotions. The most jarring thing about this album, if you could use the term jarring to describe anything about it, is the lack of percussion featured throughout its hour-long run-time. Frank directly quotes the man himself when he sings, “This is not my life, it’s just a fond farewell to a friend.” Songs like ‘White Ferrari,’ ‘Self-Control’ and ‘Skyline To’ are heavily influenced by Bon Iver and ‘Seigfried’ has Elliot Smith’s fingertips literally on it. A track like ‘Ivy’ sounds like it could have been released on Beach House’s 2015 album, Depression Cherry. If Blonde is any indication, however, I have a hunch about what type of music he’s been listening to.īlonde is an album that is influenced by indie artists like Beach House, Bon Iver and Elliot Smith more than it’s influenced by R&B and hip-hop acts like Kanye West or D’Angelo. I’m certainly not going to act like I know what Frank was doing during this time period. Very few people know exactly what Frank Ocean was up to between the time he released his universally acclaimed genre-bending album Channel Orange in 2011 and the release of his most recent record, Blonde, in August of 2016.
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