channel ORANGE” isn’t just another album, or just another album trailed by a cloud of hype and ludicrous expectations—this album is bringing people to a stop and making them listen closely, sparking e-mail threads and text-message chains. Listeners are tweeting lyrics from the album as if they were scripture, and a conversation is growing, independent of what critics are or are not saying.
— Sasha Frere-Jones on Frank Ocean’s album, “channel ORANGE”. http://nyr.kr/OAOYb4 (via newyorker)