Frank Ocean’s new album may finally be upon us. Reports suggest that the singer hosted an ultra-exclusive VIP listening party in New York on Sunday 28 February, with a video surfacing that may feature snippets of two of the tracks.
It should be noted that a series of Soundcloud and Instagram snippets allegedly from the party have already been removed from the internet, adding fuel to the rumours that they contained genuine Ocean tracks. The video below, however, is all that remains online at present.
It’s hard to make out too much from the clip. The first snippet sounds like Ocean singing a ballad over acoustic guitar. The second features a heavenly sounding choir but no lead vocals.
Ocean’s next album, rumoured to be called Boys Don’t Cry, will be the follow-up to his critically worshipped debut Channel Orange. It was supposed to have been released last summer and has been hotly anticipated for some time, with Adele recently stating that she hoped Ocean would get a move on.
“I’m just fucking waiting for Frank fucking Ocean to come out with his album,” she said last year. “It’s taking so fucking long.”
