August 2012
3 posts
'FRANK & FIONA'
What makes Frank Ocean’s ‘Channel ORANGE’ and Fiona Apple’s ‘The Idler Wheel’ so compelling?
BY DIRIYE OSMAN
I first heard Frank Ocean’s ‘Nostalgia, ULTRA’ mixtape in the summer of 2011. I was in the throes of banal 90’s nostalgia (think Brandy laced with MC Lyte blabbing on about being wetter than the waters of Kalamazoo – an icksome statement that somehow conjures up images of fish and all...
