Frank Ocean teases us to tears with an Apple Music-hosted live-stream on his website today. The live-stream (or looped video) graces us with images of work benches in a warehouse-style room/studio, and occasional muffled voices. But what does this mean — is the album coming? Is Ocean testing out his new video camera? Or does this mean anything at all?

Ocean’s album Boy’s Don’t Cry is one of the most anticipated albums of, well, last year. After the dust from Channel Orange settled in 2012, all Ocean’s fans could think of was when they’d get their next dose of Frank. However, four years later, and we’re still waiting for Ocean’s Godot-like album.

The title Boys Don’t Cry references a song by The Cure, and matches Ocean’s soulful sensitivity. Frank is a mystery, and is certainly keeping up his mystique.

Ocean’s website recently teased a photo of a library slip, with album release dates stamped up until July 2016. As the calendar rolled into August today, the live-stream might be there to acknowledge the (yet again) late due date. Ocean must never have been popular with his school librarian.

This isn’t to say that Ocean hasn’t been working hard, as opposed to hardly workin’. Ocean sang on Kanye‘s song “Frank’s Track” on The Life of Pablo — a high honor considering how much Kanye loves Kanye. Ocean also worked on James Blake‘s recent album The Colour in Anything, and starred in Calvin Klein‘s 2016 campaign.

We can only hope that this live-streamed sign of life, like a digital lighthouse, might have us out of this dark and stormy ocean soon.

Frank — we are thinking about you, and it feels like forever. Check out a picture from the live-stream below:

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Pittsburgh rhymer Devin Miles gets introspective on this Kyle Justice-produced record. Here’s what he had to say about the song:

Everything starts somewhere…

I’ve always thought it was important to know the beginnings of things you encounter, or things you like.. I got a story to tell, a lot about my growth in this industry that you may not know now… but you will.

Bet a lot of you didn’t know I engineered and produced long before I ever rapped.. Or that my best friend of 8 years and manager Zeke denied my request to manage me because he felt I wasn’t ready yet but was always waiting for the moment.. Or that I used to kick it wit Mac and smoke and listen to beats or kick it on the porch all the time.. Or that I made hundreds of songs before I let anyone hear any of them..

There’s a lot I want to share with you… The good, and the bad.. Through the bad we always search for The Cure…. We tend to always find something that makes us happy….. but does it?

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Jermaine took to his Twitter early this morning and released a new record titled “The Cure“. No word as of yet if this is a single or a throw away track that didn’t make “the cut” for one of his upcoming projects.

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