It’s a wonderfully fun album, but you’ll have to do your best to not pay attention to some of the admittedly horrible lyrics Ultimately, it's a smartly ordered patchwork of mostly secondary material.Įndless lives up to its name in every wrong sense of the word
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But as an art project or a companion to another album that’s allegedly on the way, it is fascinatingĮlectronic ephemera and lyrics full of wandering observations that suit its dreamy ambienceĪt almost 45 minutes with only the subtlest of changes in tone and action, the video becomes a chore to sit through (Impulsive reviews) Doesn’t deliver as an album or a visual spectacle. It’s a therapeutic act of change, progression, and method caught on camera, a look inside his brain through visuals far easier to understand after years of prolonged silence
It’s as though he’s making two points: firstly questioning our need to be constantly plugged in, even when making or experiencing art, and secondly highlighting that he’s damn well going to create his art in his own time, thank you very much
Print edition onlyĪ window into the soul of an artist who's just as fallable and worried as the rest of us. These records might not eclipse Channel Orange, but they have their own mercurial gleam. Hopefully, Ocean’s latest journey in cerebral, non-macho, boundary-free R&B will be heard long after the fuss has died down We care more about the circumstances of an album’s release these days than the music itself. Sprawling sonic creations that shift in texture (and sometimes genre) from minute to minute and encapsulate their creator’s insular, scattershot mind with their unknowable configurationsĮndless feels like an artistic statement before a pop album, even if it’s ultimately an impressive merging of the two The slow motion of the black-and-white construction is therapeutic. Will most certainly keep Frank Ocean fans happy and nicely warmed up for his official comebackĪ 45-minute ‘visual album’ showing the reclusive soul man building a spiral staircase over freeform ambient noodling Ocean has delivered a non-commercial pop curio that now and then slows down to focus on an idea long enough to form a “complete” song, or not You can’t – or at least you shouldn’t – go Blonde until you dive into accompanying 'visual album' Endless and its grand black-and-white DIY presentation
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