Blog: mostly junkfood

Under the veil of distant laughter and muffled conversation, the awakened hiss of a television enters the frame of sound. The warped tones of a Playstation One startup screen engulf the white noise as the beginning interactions between player and game take place. And then, silence. Right before royal strings introduce a melody that some of us have, long already, been introduced to . There's probably much to be read into in these early moments. But one thing that remains striking is that, within the relative ambiguity of the introduction to Frank Ocean's major label debut album, [...]