He recorded demos at a friend's studio and shopped them around Los Angeles.
However, after acclimating himself with music industry circles, Ocean planned to stay longer and develop his music career. To continue recording music, he moved to Los Angeles and intended to stay for six weeks. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit Ocean's hometown of New Orleans and his recording facility, which was looted and destroyed by floodwater. He enrolled in the University of New Orleans and moved into its dormitory in 2005. As a teenager, he did neighborhood chores and saved up money to rent studio time. He grew up around its local jazz scene and listened to his mother's CDs on her car stereo, including albums by Céline Dion, Anita Baker, and "The Phantom of the Opera" soundtrack. When he was around 5 years old, he and his family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana. It’s an unpredictable, flavor-packed delight that will have you dancing before you know what’s what.Ocean was born in Long Beach, California. “We OK,” the single off of the group’s new album MTMTMK, was co-written by chart-topping wizard Bruno Mars and heavily features international hip-hop star K’Naan. The Very Best is a collaboration between London-based DJ/production duo Radioclit and Esau Mwamwaya, a singer from Malawi. Relinquish your need to understand what, exactly, is going on, and let “Pyramids” work its weird magic–nine-minute songs this consistently exciting don’t come around every day.įor those disillusioned with this summer’s Top 40 offerings, here’s some international electro-pop with plenty of uplift to go around.
The story’s distinctly Ocean’s, though, and from what I can gather, it involves a very sad man who is desperately in love with a prostitute. It sounds like the super beautiful sonic baby of Prince, Stevie Wonder and Jimi Hendrix. Arguably the best song off of it, “Pyramids” is an R&B epic poem and a nine-minute masterpiece. Odd Future’s silken-throated Frank Ocean made a huge statement this summer with Channel Orange, an absurdly creative neo-soul album that peaked at #2 on the Billboard charts. If you’ve not been introduced to Miguel yet – his big break feels inevitable – this is the perfect place to start. It sounds familiar in good ways and fresh in even better ones. Employing throbbing bass, hiccupped vocals and layered harmonies, “Adorn” is a creative take on the classic “come-on-over plea” that strikes a perfect balance of smoothness and texture. “Adorn,” the single off of R&B savant Miguel’s upcoming Kaleidoscope Dream: The Water Preview, is an inventive soul classic in the vein of Frank Ocean and Marvin Gaye. One of my favorite music critics called this song “our generation’s ‘Sexual Healing,'” and I’d say he was right on the money. “Don’t leave me, oh, you’re my best friend/ all of my life, you’ve always been,” frontman Hamilton Leithauser pleads before mounting into an energetic, surf-rock chorus worthy of a fist-pump. The title track is a commemoration of their decade-long friendship that sees the suited-up group letting loose for the musical equivalent of a group high-five. Who said brooding indie rockers can’t have team spirit? Try telling that to The Walkmen, a Brooklyn-based five-piece that celebrated their tenth year as a band this May with the release of Heaven, their tightest, catchiest and most accessible album yet. A slew of precious guest verses, a bumpin’ bassline and a shout-along chorus make this song as crunchy and addictive as the high-calorie gas station treats it describes. “Hot Cheetos & Takis” is a rare treat, the kind of infectious, in-your-head-for-days summer jam that comes but once a year.
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