Frank Ocean’s new album “Blonde” was highly anticipated, seeing that his last album, “Channel Orange,” was released in 2012.

The years of teasing and missed deadlines weren’t unusual for Ocean, seeing that he has always been a little unconventional and is notorious for pushing boundaries within the genre.

Ocean’s sound has matured a lot since “Channel Orange” and “Blonde” takes a really artistic, soulful, and trippy approach to expressing a lot of raw emotion within the songs.

A few standouts, from the album full of standouts, are “Nikes,” “Pink+White” and “Self Control.”