Yes, Frank Ocean's always worth listening to. I had a thing for the melodies of We All Try and Swim Good. Channel Orange is very recommendable because it's perfectly accessible while containing a soft, understated sounding sense of scale and ambition that really appeals, I know that sounds glib. You want to go and discuss it with people. He's also a synesthete, it's where the orange cover comes from.
For me though it sounds great up to and including Super Rich Kids. I then like Pyramids, Pink Matter and whatever it is he's doing in the last track a lot as well, but I could skip the rest. I'm not sure Bad Religion or Forrest Gump would have the same impact if I didn't know he had come out. But that's practically a normal album's length worth of music I like...
Last edited by so_cold : 2012.07.25 at 02:20 PM.
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