Chris Richards of The Washington Post compared its melodic sensibilities to those of Gaye and Wonder, and its loose song structures to those of D'Angelo, Maxwell, and Erykah Badu.

After listening to his free mixtape nostalgia, I was immediately hooked by his lyrics, vocals and style. Personal favourites for me are Forrest Gump, Lost and Super Rich Kids, plus the crowning Jewel of the album 'Pink Matter' which is genuinely one of the best songs that I've heard this year. Ocean reached out to rappers André 3000 and Big Boi of hip hop duo Outkast to appear on "Pink Matter".

The lyrics addressed a male object of love and deviated from the heterosexual perspective of his past songs. In November 2013, it was ranked at number nine on Complex magazine's list of "The 50 Best Pop Album Covers of the Past Five Years", with contributing journalist Dale Eisinger writing in an accompanying essay: "Ocean took a simple route with the cover … Employing the classic Cooper Black font — a staple of his Odd Future crew and hip-hop history, alike — next to a more modern, Sans-Serif font shows just how smart this dude is, looking back to the past, while clearly aware of his surroundings. Me llegó con la orilla dañada pero nada importante, por lo que pagué que fueron 280 la verdad es que estoy más que conforme con lo que recibí, el disco incluía muchas cosas entre ellas todo lo de las fotos además de las mismas letras de las canciones en el pequeño tipo libro que incluye el mismo disco. In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 148 on the magazine's revision to the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The New Orleans-born RnB singer had kept a relatively low profile as a member of the controversial Odd Future collective. Such statements, set against silky electro-soul compositions, will undoubtedly draw comparisons to Prince. The opening track "Start" is a snippet of ambient sounds, [35] bits of silence, and flickers of noise, [3] including a PlayStation booting up. Jon Caramanica of The New York Times found the album to be "rife with the sting of unrequited love, both on the receiving and inflicting ends", with "lovers who tantalize but remain at arm's length.The actual discs are completely different: my copy has opaque orange marble, and the center stickers are very minimal, almost matching the original Channel Orange cover, and each side has swapped sticker colors. A quiet outlier, he scored notable collaborations with Jay-Z and Kanye West, yet managed to breach popular culture without making much noise. Bad Religion" features melodramatic, orchestral music and a series of figures, including strings, handclaps, marching band snare drums, [55] and mournful organ chords. a distorted version of the tumblr-leaked track 'voodoo' could be heard underneath the album's outro.

The swooning song contains hazy electronic blips, [3] [4] impressionistic textures, experimental beat patterns, refracted sound effects, and vocal improvisation expressing the narrator's "high". To prevent Channel Orange from leaking onto the Internet, Ocean and Def Jam released the album digitally one week earlier than its publicly announced date. The lushly produced songs on 'Channel Orange' are connected by tape-damaged interludes of dialogue and sound effects and warped snippets of tracks, giving things an intimate, homemade scope and feel. For "Bad Religion", engineer Jeff Ellis tried to compensate for the few string players they had by arranging seating for a large string section in EastWest's Studio 1 and using a pair of old stereo ribbon microphones to capture the sound. In an essay for the poll, the newspaper's Eric Sundermann deemed the victory unsurprising as Ocean "dominated most music discussions this past year" and had an equalizing effect on listeners of all music genres.The majority of its first-week sales were digital copies from iTunes, while approximately 3,000 of the sales were physical copies.

End" features a sample of "Voodoo", as written and performed by Frank Ocean; and contains dialogue from the 2006 film ATL. Beware: people are selling the bootleg version, which is blocked from sale on Discogs, listing it under the promo release. In an interview for The Guardian, Ocean expressed uncertainty about his penchant for darker subject matter, but speculated that "those were the colours I had to work with on those days.

much like last year's 'nostalgia, ultra', the lushly produced songs on 'channel orange' are connected by tape-damaged interludes of dialogue and sound effects and warped snippets of tracks, giving things an intimate, homemade scope and feel.