(It’s unclear whether any of this material will appear on the album proper.) Ocean fans will recognize his achingly emotional cover of Aaliyah’s classic 1994 interpretation of the Isley Brothers’ “(At Your Best) You Are Love,” a track he released on his website last year. The viewing experience feels like a corporate-sponsored listening session, except without the open bar and the table spread. Another finds them wearing Eighties-style Playboy-bunny sweaters.Īs the Oceans toil away, we hear slivers of music along with full songs. Amusingly, one scene finds the doppelgängers clad in Jesus and Mary Chain T-shirts. The film frequently cuts to darkness, only to return with the Oceans continuing to grind away, except in different clothes. Two of them cut wood – there’s a marvelous effect where one Ocean pushes a plank while another Ocean operates a power saw – while the third absentmindedly looks at his cell phone. We see first two Oceans, and then a third. But on Endless, we hear the opening notes of “Device Control,” a track by acclaimed German visual artist Wolfgang Tillmans (and which will purportedly appear on Tillmans’ Device Control EP, out September 16th). That cryptic video, hosted on his website, didn’t offer much except ambient effects and short stems of acoustic and electronic sounds. The piece opens in the same location where he presented a bizarre, sporadic live stream starting on August 1st. The piece seems designed to give us insight into the process of attempting to craft a masterpiece, as well as reward us with new music in advance of his next proper album’s seemingly imminent arrival. Instead, it finds Ocean – actually three Oceans, shadowy silhouettes of one another – wandering across a studio as he assembles some kind of project. Shot in stark black-and-white by Francisco Soriano, the 45-minute art piece is hardly the kind of fun, splashy, topical adventure that Ocean mentor Beyoncé displayed with her lavishly appointed, conversation-starting visual album Lemonade. The unexpected appearance Thursday night of the film Endless on Apple Music probably won’t satiate Frank Ocean‘s long-suffering fans.
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