Channel Orange

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Scrapping his original plan of including it in the album's liner notes, [13] Ocean published a TextEdit file as an open letter through his Tumblr blog on July 4. Although its wide physical release was scheduled for July 17, [81] Universal encouraged physical retailers to start selling it immediately after they receive shipments of the album.

Credits are adapted from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) [136] and Tidal.In June 2012, [4] news outlets and music journalists from pre-release listening events for Channel Orange raised questions about certain songs' lyrics and Ocean's sexuality. Super Rich Kids" references the thumping piano line of Elton John's 1973 song " Bennie and the Jets" and addresses young, wealthy characters' ennui and fears of the financial crisis with dry humor. On July 9, he made his television debut on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and performed "Bad Religion" with backing from the show's house band The Roots and a strings section.

Although it lacked conventional promotion, the mixtape attained a following among listeners and received critical acclaim. According to Hayley Louise Brown from Clash, the songs are "interwoven by the ambient noise of middle America – video games, TV commercials, aeroplanes and car doors".At the end of 2012, Channel Orange was named the year's best album by numerous publications, including the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, Now, Paste, PopMatters, Slant Magazine, Spin, and The Washington Post. The new wave-styled "Lost" is about a perplexed addict, [56] who hopes for a better life for him and his drug-cooking girlfriend. To prevent Channel Orange from leaking onto the Internet, Ocean planned to release it digitally one week earlier than its publicly announced date. Thinkin Bout You" became Ocean's highest charting single in the US, peaking at number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100. To downplay himself from being "the focal point" of the album, Ocean did not want his name on the cover and had Everest, his Bernese Mountain Dog, credited as the executive producer instead.

He was inspired by West and Jay-Z, who prevented their 2011 album Watch the Throne from leaking by announcing several misleading release dates. For inspiration, he and Malay listened to older records to either use as musical references or set a mood at the studio, listening to music by Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Sly and the Family Stone, Pink Floyd, and Jimi Hendrix. I would definitely recommend this album, in fact I already have to the majority of my friends who know all love it too! Since then, it has featured in several professional lists ranking the best albums from the 2010s as well as all time. Five singles were released from the album—"Thinkin Bout You" on April 17, 2012, [89] "Pyramids" on June 8, [90] "Sweet Life" on July 6, [2] "Lost" on December 17, [91] and "Super Rich Kids" on March 17, 2013.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". Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional critics, the album received an average score of 92, based on 46 reviews. The title also alludes to the first time that Ocean fell in love, as it was summer and he perceived everything to be orange. After listening to his free mixtape nostalgia, I was immediately hooked by his lyrics, vocals and style.