--- title: Frank Ocean Endless Visual Album: Tracklist, Collaborators description: Frank Ocean finally dropped long-awaited new music, a visual album stream titled "Endless" — here's everything you need to know about it. canonical: https://time.com/4459375/frank-ocean-visual-album-stream-endless/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-19T20:02:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:41.986Z og:title: Everything You Need To Know About Frank Ocean's new album, "Endless" og:description: No need to cry anymore og:url: https://time.com/4459375/frank-ocean-visual-album-stream-endless/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt460104812ff26ea9/6988a2fbcd1bba72ef702069/frank-ocean-visual-album-stream-endless.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: 2014 Pemberton Music And Arts Festival og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Everything You Need To Know About Frank Ocean's new album, "Endless" twitter:description: No need to cry anymore twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt460104812ff26ea9/6988a2fbcd1bba72ef702069/frank-ocean-visual-album-stream-endless.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Everything You Should Know About Frank Ocean's New Visual Album, 'Endless' > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Andrew Chin/FilmMagic) Andrew Chin—FilmMagic  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 19, 2016 8:02 PM UTC Much to the delight of his ardent fans everywhere, [Frank Ocean](http://time100.time.com/2013/04/18/time-100/slide/frank-ocean/) has [finally dropped a new album](http://time.com/4439541/frank-ocean-new-album-boys-dont-cry-info/) after four long years. The final product is a [black and white visual 45-minute album titled _Endless_](http://time.com/4458666/frank-ocean-releases-new-visual-album-endless/) that shows Ocean working in the artist’s studio that he introduced to us [in a live stream earlier](http://time.com/4432730/frank-ocean-new-album-boys-dont-cry/) this month. There’s more to this musical supplication, however, than meets the eye; here’s everything you might have missed about _Endless_. **This visual album isn’t actually the long-awaited album we’ve been waiting for for four years, but don’t worry — there’s more to come**: [_Rolling Stone_ ](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/watch-frank-oceans-endless-visual-album-stream-w435308)confirmed with Apple Music that _Endless_is its own project and that Frank has a separate album debuting this weekend. It will not, however, [be called _Boys Don’t Cry_ as long speculated](http://time.com/4413818/frank-ocean-next-album-boys-dont-cry/). > [](https://twitter.com/AppleMusic/status/766486036255940610) **The collaborators are what musical dreams are made of**: Frank didn’t play around when it came to musical contributions on this album. The final project boasts collaborations with Pharrell, John Mayer, André 3000, James Blake, Jazmine Sullivan and Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, as well as his Odd Future homies Earl Sweatshirt and Tyler, the Creator. **Frank’s unabashed crush on Aaliyah comes through strong on this album**: In 2015, Ocean released a cover titled “You Are Luhh” on Aaliyah’s 36th birthday to pay homage to her cover of the Isley Brothers’ “At Your Best (You Are Love)” that appeared on her debut album, _Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number_. On _Endless,_ Ocean rearranges his cover to create the opener for the album. **The stark black and white video footage has some serious fashion and art cred**: Frank’s visual album was directed by Francisco Soriano and shows Frank and multiple doppelgangers clad in Jesus and Mary Chain shirts and Playboy bunny sweaters. **The Frank Ocean fan conspiracy theories are true**: During the visual album stream, Frank and his multiple iterations, do the wood working that appeared in his mysterious live stream that he posted on his website earlier in August; he eventually builds a staircase that leads to nowhere, [which one Reddit user theorized earlier would be a part of his final project](http://time.com/4439541/frank-ocean-new-album-boys-dont-cry-info/). **While the album is only 45 minutes, it has an 18-song tracklist, which we’ve included for your viewing pleasure below**: 1. Device Control 2. Alabama 3. U-N-I-T-Y 4. Commes Des Garçons 5. Wither 6. In Here Somewhere 7. At Your Best (You Are Love) 8. Mine 9. Ambience 001: “In a Certain Way” 10. Ambience 002: “Honeybaby” 11. Hublots 12. Slide on Me 13. Sideways 14. Florida 15. Deathwish (ASR) 16. Rushes 17. Rushes T 18. 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