Frank Ocean Is Working On A New Album Influenced By Techno And House Music

Frank Ocean is in the lab tinkering with melodies and, hopefully in the near future, he's going to have a new album to share. In a new interview with W Magazine, he revealed that he's working on a new album, yet there's no set release date. He also divulged several specifics about what it's going to sound like. We might not directly know as soon as it's coming, nevertheless at least we know that there's something coming.


Frank's albums are usually pretty blends of music elements that prove him a real fan of the art form. They're loosely classified as R&B, obviously, yet there really are bits and pieces of pop, avant-garde, hip-hop, and other kinds of sonic culture. Frank's new album will equally be a montage of musical styles. He revealed in the interview that the new LP will be influenced by "Detroit, Chicago, techno, residence, French electronic," types of music.


He also disclosed that he'd like to work with more people. "I think for a while I want to get away from work that's solitary by nature," he mentioned. "I never been in a musical group or had a songwriting partner or been with an audience, so it's routinely been a lot of time on my own writing and doing the work. "I like the components of the process where I work with session musicians or with other record producers or featured artists and visitor vocalists."


In an interview with Gayletter earlier this year, Frank also talked a little about working on new music. He mentioned that he'd been splitting time between homes that he lived in located in Los Angeles and New York while recording fresh material.