Frank Ocean‘s resting pulse for many of his profession has been elusiveness. The singer who has by no means adopted any of the standard music trade guidelines releases music, or not, on his personal, typically erratic schedule, usually with no advance discover and with little commentary.
Which is why it was no shock that his newest musical missive arrived with no fanfare in his Instagram Story on Wednesday (Nov. 8) within the type of a minute-long, unnamed moody monitor. In audio captured right here, Ocean could be heard crooning in his hazy method over a droning keyboard, with the lyrics coming via solely in short, intelligible bits because the phrases typically slide collectively in a blur.
“Far more laid again than I did after I was my youthful [unintelligible]/ … assumptions however they have been educated guesses/ that’s why I … attempting to see all of your sides/ however your coronary heart’s been tangled in barbed wires/ Should you hand it to me, I can’t deal with it,” he sings. “You bought boundaries, however they’re simply obstacles you’re placing in between us/ Choose and select however we each received choices.”
The remainder of the lyrics that look like about love confusion are arduous to decipher, however followers have been usually psyched to get something new from Ocean, who has not issued any new music since he surprise-dropped two singles, “Expensive April” and “Cayendo” in 2020, which was adopted by a never-released untitled nine-minute track on the Christmas particular on his Apple Music 1 Blonded Radio present in December 2021. Ocean has not launched a correct album since 2016’s Blonde.
At press time no extra data was accessible in regards to the track or whether or not it will likely be formally launched.
Ocean as soon as once more receded from public view after his confusion, glitchy look on the Coachella Pageant in April, which was his first public present since 2017. In the course of the headlining set that started an hour late, Ocean didn’t carry out any new songs (however did play radically reworked variations of his acquainted tracks), was generally arduous to identify on the cavernous stage after which was was minimize off resulting from curfew, which ended the set whose livestream on the competition’s official YouTube broadcast was scrapped on the final minute.
It later emerged that Ocean reportedly carried out with a severe ankle harm and that his deliberate elaborate stage set-up — which was to characteristic an enormous ice rink {and professional} hockey gamers and olympic skaters doing choreography throughout the present — was scrapped on the eleventh hour after weeks of rehearsals; Ocean later dropped out of a deliberate second weekend headlining slot as a result of harm, costing the competition tens of millions of {dollars}.
In basic Ocean style, he peeked again out in June with the announcement of his 48-page Mutations picture ebook, which a launch stated could be printed on “tissue-weight paper.”
