Then, the album had a tentative release date of Aug. He teased that “Boys Don’t Cry” (initially thought to be the name of both his second album and the magazine) would be released in July 2015. Ocean’s Grammy-winning 2012 debut, “Channel Orange,” had been one of the most anticipated albums of the year - and various delays only added to the expectations.

Especially those of you who never let me forget I had to finish. Ocean’s preferred mode of communication with his fans, he wrote: “I had the time of my life making all of this.

In a note on his personal Tumblr blog, Mr. At its center, the magazine also contained a CD version of the new album. Ocean and “Blonde,” a 17-track LP by the singer released on Apple Music, as a stream and paid download. It was followed on Saturday by two other ambitious projects: pop-up shops in four cities - Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and London - that handed out free copies of Boys Don’t Cry, an elaborate art magazine created by Mr. The first, a streaming 45-minute “visual album” titled “Endless,” was released late on Thursday via Apple Music. After a yearslong wait, compounded by additional delays and release-date feints, the much-heralded, often inscrutable R&B singer Frank Ocean managed to deliver more than one new album.

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