Frank Ocean has urged he has a brand new album on the best way.
The 35-year-old star had beforehand made it recognized that he would launch new music as one-off singles as an alternative of album kind, however he has seemingly had a change of coronary heart and has teased a possible follow-up to 2016’s ‘Blonde’ on a poster for his merchandise.
The print notes {that a} “fictitious recording artist” (seemingly Ocean) most well-liked “the singles distribution mannequin versus the long-form album mannequin,” because it was “extra suited to fashionable consumption habits.”
The most important trace but that one other LP is on the best way got here with the admission that: “The Recording Artist has since modified his thoughts concerning the singles mannequin, and is once more serious about extra durational our bodies of labor.”
The ‘Novacane’ hitmaker – who’s headlining Coachella this April – wiped his Instagram web page clear in September, suggesting new music is imminent.
Since ‘Blonde’, followers have had a slew of singles, together with ‘DHL’, ‘In My Room’, ‘Cayendo’ and ‘Pricey April’.
Ocean has additionally aired unreleased music on his ‘Blonded Radio’ present.
In 2021, HITS Every day Double reported that Ocean had been “taking conferences and taking part in new music for execs as he plans his return.”
The ‘Swim Good’ hitmaker is not signed to a label, after splitting from Def Jam Recordings earlier than the discharge of ‘Blonde’.
And the outlet claimed Ocean is making an attempt “his finest to keep away from doing enterprise with the majors.”
The ‘Nikes’ star had beforehand insisted he would not really feel the necessity to launch a full assortment of songs and urged he would possibly keep on with a “half-a-song format”.
On the time, he mentioned: “As a result of I’m not in a file deal, I haven’t got to function in an album format. I can function in half-a-song format.”
The ‘Slide’ hitmaker additionally mentioned it was necessary for him to self-release ‘Blonde’, as a result of he did not have to fret about the way it did within the charts like his earlier album, 2012’s ‘Channel Orange’.
He mentioned: “With this file [‘Blonde’] specifically, I wished to really feel like I gained earlier than the file got here out, and I did, and so it took quite a bit stress off of me about how the file even would carry out after the actual fact. As soon as the objective is met, the whole lot else is lagniappe. It isn’t important for me to have an enormous debut week, it isn’t important for me to have huge radio data.”
