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The good news is that, after four years of waiting, Frank Ocean has finally actually released something. The bad news is that it’s not his album.
The hype surrounding Frank Ocean's much-delayed follow-up to Channel Orange, which was supposed to be released at some point last year and never materialised, has been reignited and then extinguished more times than we care to remember.
Last month though, a picture of a library sticker with Boys Don’t Cry (thought to be the album’s title) at the bottom and a string of dates, emerged on his website. The date at the very bottom was July 2016, with the exact date smudged.
When it didn’t appear in July, he then launched a live stream at the start of August, which showed a man sitting at a desk cutting wood, and lasted four days. When it ended though, there was still no album.
Now, Ocean has unveiled a 45-minute visual album, Endless, which is streaming exclusively on Apple Music.
“ENDLESS”
— Apple Music (@AppleMusic) August 19, 2016
A film by Frank Ocean.
Now on Apple Music. #ENDLESShttps://t.co/IKMm2PNsUH pic.twitter.com/nlLxXoQ296
The visual album features a cover of The Isley Brothers’ ‘At Your Best (You Are Love)’, and also includes contributions from the likes of Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, James Blake, Jazmine Sullivan, Sampha and Arca.
As The Guardian reports, Apple have also suggested that we can expect “more from Frank” over the coming weekend. Could this finally be the album? Probably not, let’s face it.
What we do know, according to Rolling Stone, is that the new album is no longer called Boys Don’t Cry.
