channel ORANGE (Explicit Version)

Tyler, The Creator might have hogged the limelight in 2011, but it was his Odd Future-compandre Frank Ocean who made the biggest, er, splash in 2012. From the Stevie Wonder-esque swing of "Sweet Life" to the string-laden, tear-stained R&B of "Bad Religion", via an almighty, nine-minute-plus, digital-funk opus named "Pyramids", Channel Orange confirmed what mixtape Ultra/Nostalgia implied: Frank Ocean is one of the finest songwriting talents of our times.