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Frank Ocean’s Long-Awaited Album, Boys Don’t Cry, Will Be Released on Friday

Frank Ocean’s first album in four years will be released on Friday.

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At last, a year after it was originally set to appear, Frank Ocean’s long-awaited album, Boys Don’t Cry, has a new release date. Fortunately for impatient fans, they won’t have long to wait: The album drops this Friday. The New York Times reports that Boys Don’t Cry will become available on Aug. 5 as an Apple Music exclusive for two weeks before becoming more widely available. The Times also reports that the Friday release will be accompanied by a video and a printed publication.

The album, which was originally supposed to be released in July 2015, will be Ocean’s first since 2012’s Channel Orange. Hours before the announcement, in what is by now a familiar PR gambit for musicians on the brink of releasing new music, Ocean’s website mysteriously changed: It began broadcasting an enigmatic video—apparently a livestream—that featured a lone figure cutting wood in a large studio.

Still a mystery.

Still from the livestream