Perhaps no record this decade has been as anticipated as Frank Ocean’s sequel to his 2012 breakthrough Channel Orange. For years, internet sleuths have been dissecting the enigmatic artist’s every move. Yet Ocean has confused them at every step, even releasing a surprise 45-minute visual album, Endless, two days before Blonde, which, intriguingly, is being promoted with both the masculine and feminine spellings of the word. So is the hype deserved? Definitely. With these 17 tracks, Ocean shows himself to be one of pop’s foremost innovators.