Channel Orange
by Frank Ocean
- Type: Album
- Released: 10 July 2012
- Label: Red Zone, Island Def Jam
- Country: United States
- Length: 55:38
- Community rating: 4.15/5 from 39 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Frank Ocean's debut studio album 'Channel Orange' redefined contemporary R&B with its vivid storytelling, genre-blending production, and emotional honesty. Moving seamlessly between funk, soul, and psychedelic pop, Ocean crafts intricate narratives about unrequited love, wealth, and identity in Los Angeles. It is a sophisticated, deeply personal masterpiece that established him as one of the most important songwriters of his generation.
Genres
Descriptors: soulful, confessional, storytelling, conceptual, diverse
Tracklist
- Start (00:45)
- Thinkin Bout You (03:20)
- Fertilizer (00:39)
- Sierra Leone (02:28)
- Sweet Life (04:22)
- Not Just Money (00:59)
- Super Rich Kids (05:04)
- Pilot Jones (03:04)
- Crack Rock (03:44)
- Pyramids (09:52)
- Lost (03:54)
- White (01:16)
- Monks (03:20)
- Bad Religion (02:55)
- Pink Matter (04:28)
- Forrest Gump (03:14)
- End (02:14)
Credits
- Aaron Martinez - artwork [album art]
- Phil Toselli - artwork [album art]
- Thomas Mastorakos - artwork [album art]
- Francisco Torres - brass
- Irvin Mayfield - brass
- Matt Chamberlain - drums, programmed by [additional programming]
- Andrew Coleman - engineer
- Calvin Bailiff - engineer
- Doug Fenske - engineer
- Jeff Ellis - engineer
- Marcos Tovar - engineer
- Om'Mas Keith - engineer
- Pat Thrall - engineer
- Phillip Scott III - engineer
- Victor Wainstein - engineer
- Adam Harr - engineer [assistant]
- Brendan Dekora - engineer [assistant]
- Chad Carlisle - engineer [assistant]
- Ghazi Hourani - engineer [assistant]
- Matt Brownlie - engineer [assistant]
- Miguel Lara - engineer [assistant]
- Paul Meyer - engineer [assistant]
- Peter Mack - engineer [assistant]
- Ryan Kennedy - engineer [assistant]
- Wil Anspach - engineer [assistant]
- Everest - executive-producer
- Andre 3000 - guitar
- John Mayer - guitar
- Taylor Johnson - guitar
- Charlie Hunter - guitar, bass
- Frank Ocean - keyboards
- Jeff Babko - keyboards
- Shea Taylor - keyboards
- Pharrell Williams - keyboards, programmed by [additional programming]
- Malay - keyboards, programmed by [additional programming], guitar, bass, brass, vocals [additional]
- Dan Jensen - legal
- Michelle Jubelirer - legal
- Chris Clancy - management
- Kelly Clancy - management
- Akinah Rahmaan - management [label]
- Barry Weiss - management [label]
- Gabe Tesoriero - management [label]
- Gabrielle Peluso - management [label]
- Karen Kwak - management [label]
- Kristen Yiengst - management [label]
- Michael Seltzer - management [label]
- Scott Marcus - management [label]
- Steve Bartels - management [label]
- Vlado Meller - mastered by
- Mark Santangelo - mastered by [assisted by]
- Matty Green - mixed by [assistant mixer]
- Mark Stent - mixed by [the mix suite]
- Nabil Elderkin - photography by
- Chuck Palmer - strings
- Dave Eggar - strings
- Sara Parkins - strings
- Auntie Rosie - vocals [additional]
- Crimson Tide Cheerleaders - vocals [additional]
- Danielle Miranda-Simms - vocals [additional]
- Elizabeth Paige - vocals [additional]