Saturday 20 April 2013

Daily Smooth: Frank Ocean - Swim Good

This is the first Frank Ocean song I heard and it instantly got me hooked to his work.

It comes from his first major release, the mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra. 

It combines heavy bass and drums with a synth organ to great effect during the verses, while the instrumentation gets embellished with some keys during the choruses.

Ocean delivers his lines in a chilled out style for the most part, but pushes the boat out in the bridge and final chorus.

There is something so relaxing about Ocean's songs in general and I'd urge anyone who likes contemporary R&B to check out Nostalgia, Ultra as well as his stunning debut album, channel Orange.

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