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Following several albums and EPs on Pacific Northwest independent labels

Channel Orange InStock the band had received criticalFrank Ocean has character. He's rare. In a world that divvies up art by genre, that constantly seeks to quantify cool, he is impossible to miss, like a panda bear in a pine forest. And over the past year or so, he's become harder and harder to ignore. Frank had long labored behind the curtain writing for Brandy, Justin Bieber, and John Legend but after hooking up with L. A.'s Odd Future collective, he self released 2011's nostalgia, ULTRA. mixtape,