![]() The tuning of the titular "channel," with sounds of the city, a television, and a video game framing what's to come. And since you're probably going to be hearing more about it, anyway, Rap Genius, the Internet's most intelligent repository of hip-hop lyrical analysis, has provided us with some track-by-track liner notes on the meanings contained therein. It's also likely to please fans of Ocean's mixtape, Nostalgia, Ultra, while appealing more broadly to hip-hop, R&B, and pop audiences. The record represents a startlingly complex, dark, and emotional journey that could easily fit into any number of "Best of" lists, even in July. But a certain recent announcement has given it a whole lot more attention. Some people had already been anticipating Frank Ocean's debut album, Channel Orange (released this week ahead of schedule, and which you can stream here), for several years now.
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