{"id":805997,"date":"2020-04-03T01:55:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T07:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=977786"},"modified":"2020-04-03T01:55:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T07:55:51","slug":"frank-ocean-shares-two-new-songs-dear-april-and-cayendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/frank-ocean-shares-two-new-songs-dear-april-and-cayendo\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Ocean Shares Two New Songs \u2018Dear April\u2019 and \u2018Cayendo\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/shutterstock_editorial_10229705q.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/frank-ocean\/\" id=\"auto-tag_frank-ocean\" data-tag=\"frank-ocean\">Frank Ocean<\/a> has released two new tracks, \u201cDear April\u201d and \u201cCayendo.\u201d The singer first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/frank-ocean-new-songs-dear-april-cayendo-901349\/\">previewed the songs<\/a>, which appear on special vinyl releases for fans, last October during his first-ever PrEP+ club night in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The songs, produced by Ocean alongside Daniel Aged, have been dropped as acoustic versions, with emotional ballad \u201cCayendo\u201d sung partially in Spanish. \u201cDear April,\u201d written by Ocean with Aged, is an equally moody, introspective number. On the vinyl editions, each A-side studio song is backed by a featured remix: Justice remixed \u201cDear April,\u201d while Sango took on \u201cCayendo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pvU4b4N1-QU?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ocean released several singles late last year, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/frank-ocean-new-song-in-my-room-907379\/\">\u201cIn My Room,\u201d<\/a> which he dropped in November, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/frank-ocean-new-song-dhl-901373\/\">\u201cDHL.\u201d<\/a> It\u2019s not yet announced if any of the new tracks will appear on Ocean\u2019s long-anticipated third album, which would follow his 2016 album<em> Blonde<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview last year, Ocean <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/frank-ocean-lie-new-album-892930\/\">said that his upcoming album<\/a> was being influenced by \u201cDetroit, Chicago, techno, house, French electronic\u201d and that it would be a \u201cfull motion picture fantasy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe expectation for artists to be vulnerable and truthful is a lot, you know,\u201d Ocean said. \u201cWhen it\u2019s no longer a choice. Like, in order for me to satisfy expectations, there needs to be an outpouring of my heart or my experiences in a very truthful, vulnerable way. I\u2019m more interested in lies than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/frank-ocean-dear-april-cayendo-977786\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Ocean has released two new tracks, \u201cDear April\u201d and \u201cCayendo.\u201d The singer first previewed the songs, which appear on special vinyl releases for fans, last October during his first-ever PrEP+ club night in New York. The songs, produced by Ocean alongside Daniel Aged, have been dropped as acoustic versions, with emotional ballad \u201cCayendo\u201d sung [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 09:53:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}