White

Frank Ocean sings alone on 'White', a brief interlude tucked into Odd Future's second group mixtape. The vocal and songwriting consistency he brought to 'nostalgia, ULTRA' the previous year carries through here, even in miniature. The lyric moves from waking disorientation to a kind of cosmic tenderness, trees talking like people, planets traced on a forehead, before settling on the fear that memory itself will dissolve. Ocean credits the artist singing 'I'll forget 23 like I forget 17 / And I forget my first love like you forget a daydream', the intimacy of the scene undercut by the certainty that it won't last. The final image, everyone fading to grey on a television station, closes the track with quiet resignation.