Blonde came out in the late summer of my junior going into senior year of high school as I began dating my first girlfriend. All three parts Blonde came out in the late summer of my junior going into senior year of high school as I began dating my first girlfriend. All three parts of that sentence seem fitting to what Blonde is as an artistic work and a memoir on youth. As a sonic experience, listening to Blonde feels surreal. The ambient production is ethereal, dreamy, loose but utterly captivating. The songwriting, as idiosyncratic as it is, is relatable, intimate, heartrending, personal, and inspiring. Frank's tales of young love on songs like White Ferrari and Ivy activate instant nostalgia while other tracks like Nikes examine the human condition on a broader scale and the hypnagogic feeling of drug and alcohol-induced nights out at the renowned Berghain in Berlin. Blonde, overall, is an hour-long mesmerizing pop/RnB/soul/alternative masterpiece that drifts through time and fills the soul with wistful reminiscence of how it feels and what it means to be young.



Score: 9.7/10



Fav track(s): Damn near all of em

Least fav track(s): Siegfried...maybe? … Expand