It’s finally here.

Four years after Channel Orange swept the airwaves and changed the lives of countless people across the world, Frank Ocean has returned with his third album, simply titled Blonde.

It’s been a difficult few years for Frank Ocean fans, but the reward has been heavy: a visual album yesterday and a regular album today has brought a wealth of new music from a man who’s kept mostly quiet since 2012.

Blonde is a seventeen track affair that’s nothing short of remarkable: a carefully-arranged album that could only have taken four years to put together, with production that ranges from lush to minimalist with a skillful hand, lyrics that delve deeper into issues of Frank’s mental health and sexuality, and a mind-blowing set of contributors: Beyoncé, Brian Eno, James Blake, Jamie xx, Jonny Greenwood, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Malay, Mike Dean, Michael Uzowuru, Pharrell, Rick Rubin, Tyler the Creator, and Yung Lean are only a handful of people involved on the seventeen-track record, yet despite the wealth of people involved, it’s Frank’s album. Aside from the phenomenal 3stacks freestyle on “Solo (Reprise)”, any other feature provides only background vocals to Frank.

The album release came coupled with four pop-up shops in LA, Chicago, New York, and London as Frank gave away free copies of Boys Don’t Cry, a magazine that’s been teased since the album announcement last year. Inside the magazine (of which there are, reportedly, three versions), fans who waited in the impossibly long lineups found everything from poetry by Frank to raps about McDonalds from Kanye West, interviews with Lil B the Based God, and physical copies of the album with a slightly altered tracklist: the seventeen tracks were cut down to twelve, and two exclusive tracks (“Mitsubishi Sony” and “Easy”) were added. The album also different artwork, pictured below:

It’s too early to delve deep into the album; I still learn more about Channel Orange with every listen and it’s been out for years, so Blonde is going to take a while to truly comprehend this year’s most anticipated album, but expect an article in the near future. In the meantime, cop the album on iTunes, and check out Endless on Apple Music and the music video for “Nikes” on Frank’s website if you haven’t already.

Here’s a list of contributors to Blond:

Kanye’s McDonalds rap:

And the poem Frank wrote for Boys Don’t Cry: