His third studio effort is streaming exclusively on Apple Music now, but was also made available in physical form at a series of pop-up shops nationwide Saturday, where the album's companion magazine revealed A-list credits including Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and André 3000. Nikes is easily an album standout and offers a perfect tease of what's to come on the rest of Blonde, another poetic, diary-like entry to Ocean's already-peerless catalog. Addressing matters of class, materialism and passion through dreamy, distorted vocals, the song has the trademark vulnerability of Ocean's Channel Orange and Nostalgia, Ultra, while also moving him into more sonically adventurous territory. So when the reclusive crooner finally returned with new material this weekend, fans were ecstatic to receive not one, but two albums: the sprawling, subdued visual effort Endless, released on Apple Music late Thursday night, and the more traditional Blonde (or Blond, depending on whether you choose to use the cover art or iTunes spelling).īlonde opens with spellbinding first single Nikes, whose eccentrically grandiose video Ocean released Saturday morning.

It was an agonizing four-year wait for more Frank Ocean.

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