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Now we get our longest exposure to Frank’s high-pitched cry yet on “At Your Best (You Are Love).” There’s a midverse tease of it on Nostalgia, Ultra’s “Strawberry Swing.” On Channel Orange’s “Thinkin Bout You,” the falsetto takes center stage as a disarmingly vulnerable rejoinder to Frank’s nonchalant, half-rapped facade built on a stack of flimsy lies. Victor Luckerson : Millennia ago, the music gods decreed that every Frank Ocean project begin in earnest with the Frank Ocean Falsetto. ‘At Your Best (You Are Love)’ (Isley Brothers Cover) (0:58) All of which is to say: Welcome back, Frank. But I wonder if that was the point, then and now: to take something radically vulnerable and put it in hurt’s way. It felt so reckless to take these heartbreakingly intimate photographs and slap them up with two-by-fours and Scotch tape. Others still - and this feels like the important part - were housed in makeshift display cases: plywood tables with glass tops, flimsy and handmade. Tillmans taped many of them straight to the gallery’s walls some were printed on foam board and nailed in. There, on a cold weekend morning, I was struck as much by the context of his photographs as their content. Tillmans had a solo show at New York’s David Zwirner Gallery last fall. In Tillmans’s photos, the clothes are genderless, sexual identity is fluid, and the fruit is so, so ripe. For an artist coming of age as the Wall came down, it was a sidelong approach to politics - but the work is political nonetheless. Tillmans is a radically democratic and curious photographer, picking the sublime out of the everyday: those friends and lovers, but also foamy ocean waves, fruits. Far from it: Tillmans came up in the early 1990s, shooting his pals in Berlin’s fashion and techno scenes when each of those worlds was in the throes of real revolution. The Berlin-based Tillmans is a big-deal photographer who shows in museums and galleries. The bodies of work by the 48-year-old from Remscheid and the 28-year-old from Louisiana share an ethic, a value system. Because Frank isn’t just one of Tillmans’s subjects. “With this Apple appliance,” a voice drones as we watch Frank’s Apple-exclusive movie, “you can watch a live video.” Very cute.īut there’s something more interesting going on here. Sam Schube : Four years since Channel Orange, and the first thing we hear from Frank Ocean is a song about iPhones written by the German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans.

So our staffers went track-by-track on this sucker. But forget the technical details (we’re pretty sure you stripped those screws, Frank) and commercial semantics, and remember what Endless is: a Frank Ocean album. Frank back! Four years and a couple of short-circuited livestreams later, our favorite aspiring zine-maker has returned with Endless, a 45-minute “video album.” He’s promising another album, maybe even this weekend.