He later withdrew from his European tour dates altogether, [110] including English rock band Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto Tour, [111] on which he would have been the opening act during the tour's European leg in August and September. They added live drums to "Crack Rock", "Monks", and " Sweet Life", which was originally produced as a digital track. Similar to Nostalgia, Ultra, [46] Channel Orange has interludes that feature sounds of organs, waves, tape decks, [26] car doors, [47] channel surfing, white noise, [48] and dialogue.

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional critics, the album received an average score of 92, based on 46 reviews. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Beware: people are selling the bootleg version, which is blocked from sale on Discogs, listing it under the promo release. According to Hayley Louise Brown from Clash, the songs are "interwoven by the ambient noise of middle America – video games, TV commercials, aeroplanes and car doors". Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers.

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Channel Orange was sold exclusively through iTunes until July 17, when it was released to other digital retailers. The actual discs are completely different: my copy has opaque orange marble, and the center stickers are very minimal, almost matching the original Channel Orange cover, and each side has swapped sticker colors. He previewed songs at different stages of completion to get feedback from guest artists, some of whom he cited as his "creative heroes", [13] including record producer Pharrell Williams, [5] who co-wrote and co-produced "Sweet Life" with Ocean. Originally written by Ocean for singer Bridget Kelly, " Thinkin Bout You" had been recorded as an early take by him and posted on his Tumblr account in July. During their writing sessions, Malay noticed Ocean's use of gender pronouns in his lyrics, but attributed it to Ocean's poetic license rather than his sexuality.

In November 2013, it was ranked at number nine on Complex magazine's list of "The 50 Best Pop Album Covers of the Past Five Years", with contributing journalist Dale Eisinger writing in an accompanying essay: "Ocean took a simple route with the cover … Employing the classic Cooper Black font — a staple of his Odd Future crew and hip-hop history, alike — next to a more modern, Sans-Serif font shows just how smart this dude is, looking back to the past, while clearly aware of his surroundings.

We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love. The title also alludes to the first time that Ocean fell in love, as it was summer and he perceived everything to be orange.