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Endless

Frank Ocean

Endless

A 45-minute long visual album from the New Orleans-born R&B singer released through Apple Music

ADM rating[?]

7.1

Label
Boys Don't Cry / Def Jam
UK Release date
20/08/2016
US Release date
20/08/2016
  1. 9.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    You can’t – or at least you shouldn’t – go Blonde until you dive into accompanying 'visual album' Endless and its grand black-and-white DIY presentation
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  2. 8.3 |   Pretty Much Amazing

    Ocean has delivered a non-commercial pop curio that now and then slows down to focus on an idea long enough to form a “complete” song, or not
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  3. 8.0 |   Gig Soup

    Will most certainly keep Frank Ocean fans happy and nicely warmed up for his official comeback
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  4. 8.0 |   Mojo

    A 45-minute ‘visual album’ showing the reclusive soul man building a spiral staircase over freeform ambient noodling
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  5. 8.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    The slow motion of the black-and-white construction is therapeutic. Like watching the waves
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  6. 8.0 |   State

    Sprawling sonic creations that shift in texture (and sometimes genre) from minute to minute and encapsulate their creator’s insular, scattershot mind with their unknowable configurations
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  7. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    Endless feels like an artistic statement before a pop album, even if it’s ultimately an impressive merging of the two
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  8. 8.0 |   The Observer

    We care more about the circumstances of an album’s release these days than the music itself. Hopefully, Ocean’s latest journey in cerebral, non-macho, boundary-free R&B will be heard long after the fuss has died down
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  9. 8.0 |   Q

    These records might not eclipse Channel Orange, but they have their own mercurial gleam. Print edition only

  10. 8.0 |   Uncut

    A window into the soul of an artist who's just as fallable and worried as the rest of us. Print edition only

  11. 7.0 |   The Quietus

    It’s as though he’s making two points: firstly questioning our need to be constantly plugged in, even when making or experiencing art, and secondly highlighting that he’s damn well going to create his art in his own time, thank you very much
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  12. 6.7 |   Consequence Of Sound

    It’s a therapeutic act of change, progression, and method caught on camera, a look inside his brain through visuals far easier to understand after years of prolonged silence
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  13. 6.6 |   Spin

    (Impulsive reviews) Doesn’t deliver as an album or a visual spectacle. But as an art project or a companion to another album that’s allegedly on the way, it is fascinating
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  14. 6.0 |   NOW

    Electronic ephemera and lyrics full of wandering observations that suit its dreamy ambience
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  15. 5.8 |   A.V. Club

    At almost 45 minutes with only the subtlest of changes in tone and action, the video becomes a chore to sit through
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  16. 5.0 |   All Music

    Ultimately, it's a smartly ordered patchwork of mostly secondary material.
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  17. 4.0 |   Under The Radar

    Endless lives up to its name in every wrong sense of the word
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