He gets to the 10th step, almost to the top, before the entire staircase disappears. Patiently, Ocean walks back over to the staircase and starts to climb. The song that’s playing, 'Higgs,' suddenly shifts from a soft, lilting thing to a heated club track it sounds like an alarm going off. He circles the staircase aimlessly, squats down to look at it from a different angle, walks over to a table and takes a sip of something, then leans back to admire his work. But when you watch Endless in full, accompanied by 19 new Frank Ocean tracks (including interludes), it becomes an entirely separate project: an exercise in accepting stasis.Īt around 38 beautiful, but slow minutes into Endless, Ocean is finally done building. Plus, we’ve seen this visual before: the clip closely resembles the live stream that’s been living on Ocean’s website for weeks. If you were to graph the plot of Endless, it would mostly be a straight line. Throughout Endless’s 45-minute run time, the setting never changes, and the camera angles rarely do. Shot in black and white, the video is set in a warehouse where Ocean slowly and methodically builds what looks like a spiral staircase out of big blocks of wood. Unlike Beyonce’s Lemonade, a visual album that accompanied each song with a distinct act with a distinct look, Endless is more fixed. Instead of the previously announced Boys Don’t Cry (which will reportedly drop this weekend as a separate project, under a new title), Endless is a 'surprise' visual album, currently streaming on Apple Music.

But it wasn’t the release we were expecting. Early this morning, Frank Ocean did what we’ve been waiting for him to do for four years now: he released a new album.

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