![]() (You can access the original blonded podcast by visiting Apple Music, or subscribing to our Spotify channel, where we’re collected them as Spotify playlists.) FRANK’S AMBIENT/ELECTRONIC/GLITCH ITCHįrank Ocean’s video performance piece Endless was a teaser “album” of sorts, released just one day before Blonde. The main playlist here represents a megamix of all the tracks featured in the segmented playlists below. ![]() Listening to these broadcasts is like watching a master chef at work in their kitchen.We’ve combined and organized selections that Frank picked for blonded, as well as previous lists he’s provided over the years and the music that he’s sampled, dividing the playlists largely along genre lines in order to provide a key for how Frank thinks about music. Like many music masterminds-from Prince to Radiohead-he’s interested in genre pastiche, extracting and recontextualizing broad and seemingly disparate forms of music. ![]() Ocean has never been particularly forthcoming in interviews-on the few occasions he’s done them-but his taste in music offers a rare and deep glimpse into his creative processes and inspirations.For many, Ocean’s music is singular, and his talent and sound seem to have emerged from a vacuum, but there are specific antecedents to each component of his music. ![]() After a fit of false starts and head fakes, Ocean revealed his masterpiece, Blonde, an album that, in many ways, embodied a greater idea of what America could be: inclusive and diverse, both culturally and aesthetically adventurous and transparent, embracing experimentations in search of an emotional honesty and, not least importantly, fun, and filled with an overarching optimism.Things may have gone downhill since then, but we still have Frank, and he’s been particularly productive in 2017, releasing a slew of more pop-oriented singles, and, maybe just as importantly, curating his own radio show, blonded, on Apple Music. We may have reached a sort of peak America on August 20, 2016. ![]()
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