![]() ![]() It’s telling that the album is logistically in a world of its own commenting on how much of an oddity it is in the context of modern soul music. Instead, the only legal way is to purchase it on vinyl, CD or VHS on a web-store that was only open for a two-week window, and not on Spotify, Apple Music or even iTunes (though is, hilariously, on PornHub). Having said this, the album is not available in the usual avenues one would expect, and any official methods are now closed. ![]() The success of this strategy allowed Ocean to buy back his masters soon after, thus seeing fit to return to the forgotten Endless and amend it for a full re-release, possibly in the hope that it gets adequate recognition among listeners. Endless and Blonde were rolled out one day after the other, the former being a fragmentary album of what-felt-like demos intended to relieve Frank of his Def Jam record contract, and the latter being a much more marketable album, released independently. Helping greatly to put the style back into the public consciousness, the world then endured an infamous four-year wait for a dual-release weekend from the enigmatic crooner. ![]() When Frank Ocean released his major-label debut, Channel Orange, it was paraded as the return of old-school R&B, while simultaneously pushing the genre forward with jazz elements, electronics and emotive storytelling. ![]()
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