Four years in the making and 17 tracks long, Blonde – Frank Ocean was high-stakes stuff. You needed to invest energy in it.
For some fans, who found their hardbodied ennui so prettily articulated by Ocean’s previous album Channel Orange, it might have been a step too far.
But to regard a more difficult record as a less successful one would be a shame; as brilliant as Channel Orange was, Blonde is more adventurous, more vividly authored.
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