Album Review: Frank Ocean’s Nostalgia/Ultra Overall Grade A-

Frank Ocean’s  debut album is very good if not great effort that shakes up the mildly stagnant world of RNB. The single Novacane is already a borderline classic with a great beat and groove. Frank laments both the state of both his life and music today with lines like  I can't feel nothing -] Superhuman, even when I’m fucking -Viagra popping, every single record Auto-tuning, zero emotion, muted emotion -Pitched corrected Computed emotion uh huh” Later, he talks about hooking up with some uber hot girl who claims to be an aspiring dentist but does porn. But the hook up is not for pleasure, it is too dull the pain as Frank sings on the chorusNovocaine baby I want you -Fuck me good -Fuck me long -Fuck me numb -Love me now when I’m gone love me numb -Love me numb love me numb -numb numb numb numb” But Frank is not totally against fucking for pleasure. On the track “Nature Feels” he exalts the virtues of fucking outside with lines like “baby girl-tell me how my nature feels-up against a cherry tree-baby girl- I will give it to you naturally.” The track “Nature Feels” samples MGMT’s Electric Feel. I think it works great, but if one wants to nip pick, there is an argument to made that Frank relies a little too much on familiar samples on the album. One of the other two most obvious samples is the track “American Wedding” which samples The Eagles “Hotel California.” The song is a great story telling track about Frank falling madly in love with a college girl (or possible a high school girl) over the course of a summer, getting married, but only to have the girl break his heart at the end of the summer when she confesses that she had fun, but only wanted a quick summer fling. Again, while “Hotel California”  is an all time big hit and Ocean using it  could be looked at as a too easy Puffy style recycling of a past hit, but in “American Wedding” much like Puffy at his best the sample is used in a non obvious way bringing new life both to the original song and the song that samples it. Frank Ocean also breathes new life into the Coldplay track Strawberry Swing with not just a sample, but a cover of that song in a soulful way.       Despite the previously mentions samples, Frank also creates his own music that also sounds fresh but familiar. On the track “We All Try” he uses a simple back beat to argue both for gay marriage and a women’s right to choose (but encourages not abort) ” with the lines “I believe a woman's temple -gives her the right to choose -but baby don't abort -I believe that marriage isn't  between a man & woman-but between love and love” . In the funny interlude “Bitches Talking Shit” Frank is listening to Radiohead, but the girls he is with are asking him “What’s a Radiohead?” and demanding that he play Jodeci. The track “Love Crimes” uses one of the more creative samples I have heard in a while; throughout the track and especially towards the end we hear Nicole Kidman’s rants from the Kubrick movie (Ocean is a big Kubrick fan) in the background of the song to great effect and emotional affect. Throughout the whole album Ocean will switch from using out of the ordinary music or lyrics, main stream RNB smooth crooning, and the occasional well known sample, but it all ties together and flows really well. This is one of the best albums released so far this year.  Overall Grade A-


 

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