


Ocean also sports winged eyeliner, gold body glitter and a pearl-encrusted Balmain jumpsuit. According to Pitchfork s ranking of this decades best LPs, Frank Ocean released the best album of our time with Blonde. The album under review, is titled Blonde (stylised as Blond) by African American artist Frank Ocean, released in 2016 by Blonded (Beats 1 radio show and label company, conducted by Ocean). Featured New Releases Editors Choice All New Releases Discover. On the album cover, its spelled 'Blond,' which is the masculine version of 'blonde.' But official resources and news media refer to the album as 'Blonde.' Now fans are going head-to-head over the spelling. It turns out that his album shares the same title as his racing company, Blonde Racing LLC, which is also responsible for the content posted on his official website, īlonde takes the spiritual existentialism that defined Channel Orange and strides forward confidently: In his ‘zine Boys Don’t Cry, Ocean features sensual shots of both male and female bodies, while in his “Nikes” video, nude and/or glitter-covered bodies embrace. Find album release information for Blonde by Frank Ocean on AllMusic. Frank Oceans artistic statement (or typo) has fans confused about the stylization of his new albums name. Over the weekend we asked Ann Powers and Jason King to wrestle with Frank Ocean's long-awaited follow-up. His album shares a name with his company: Frank’s album is titled, Blonde, but it reads as Blond on his album cover which features an image of him with neon green hair. Frank Ocean's raw, bleeding, diaristic storytelling guides Blonde.
