Frank Ocean’s gathered a fair few column inches over the past couple of weeks, both around his opening up about his sexuality, and his much-anticipated new album Channel Orange. The follow-up to last year’s great Nostalgia, Ultra mixtape, it marks his debut for Def Jam. It was originally set to be released next week – July 16th – but this morning he’s released the album a week early through iTunes, and has uploaded a stream of the entire thing to his Tumblr. Click here to listen to the album in its entirety.
For more on Channel Orange, you can read our track-by-track guide, which describes the album as "a staggering step upwards from Nostalgia, an event album in waiting that exceeds all expectations of the singer, who now can sit comfortably alongside the likes of The Weeknd as an R&B prodigy with a very bright future indeed ahead of him." Click here to read the whole review.
