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Frank Ocean performs at The Other Tent during day three of the 2014 Bonnaroo Arts And Music Festival on June 14, 2014 in Manchester, Tennessee.
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There are too many reviews to read each month. To help you figure out what media to waste your life consuming, we’ve helpfully distilled a few of them for you.

Frank Ocean, Blonde

“The aesthetic Ocean pursues on doesn’t allow for big, bold pronouncements and (although you could argue that the record makes a statement simply by breaking free of genre and attempting to usurp canonical works by white artists). Ocean’s sexuality, which he has previously explored on tracks such as ‘Bad Religion,’ is alluded to, but in nuanced ways: the stunning ballad ‘Self Control’ opens with, ‘I’ll be the boyfriend in your wet dreams tonight.’” —Tim Jonze/

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