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Jan 24, 2012Compared to most releases of its kind, Nostalgia, Ultra is plotted with care, not slapped together with haste.
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Jan 24, 2012His romantic laments are models of texture, respect, and profound loss, their beats subtle, seductive, weird, and seized like time.
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Jul 26, 2011It's supposedly winnowed down to seven excellent tracks you can pay for, versus an album-of-the-year candidate you can cop free legally (for now).
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Jan 24, 2012He's an intuitive r&b stylist, with a firm sense of song structure (he's written for Justin Bieber and Beyoncé) and a conversational talk-singing voice that is as indebted to Justin Timberlake and Pharrell as it is to R. Kelly.
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Apr 15, 2011Given how slick and intuitive this album is--full of astral soul that owes debts to Terence Trent D'Arby, Pharrell Williams, even Drake--it's more likely that someone will lose his job than that Frank Ocean will lose his record deal over this kerfuffle.
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Apr 15, 2011Like the rest of Nostalgia, "American Wedding" is dark, playful, a little tasteless, and absolutely riveting.
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Apr 15, 2011The record stands as the most shocking thing the Odd Future collective has put out to date: a R&B record with crossover potential without sacrificing soul that creates a complete picture of its author, warts and all.
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Apr 15, 2011No matter the mood, this songwriter is always quick to add fine particulars that make his songs his songs.
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Apr 15, 2011Introspection of this kind can be a difficult thing to pull off convincingly, but Nostalgia never veers too far into sentimentality to let its edges be sanded down.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 217 out of 232
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Mixed: 8 out of 232
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Negative: 7 out of 232
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May 10, 2011
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Jul 18, 2012
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Jul 20, 2023Great listen i loved the covers he did such a good job some of my favorite tracks offf of the album were Novacane and Love Crimes