Frank Ocean headlined Coachella Sunday evening, enjoying a mercurial set of reworked classics and deep cuts earlier than slicing the present brief because of a curfew. Take a look at the setlist and watch clips beneath.
Ocean arrived about an hour late and, carrying a blue jacket with the hood up, opened with stripped-back renditions of “Novacane,” “Come on World, You Can’t Go!,” “Crack Rock,” and “Unhealthy Faith,” earlier than lurching right into a modular-synth rework of “White Ferrari.”
After “White Ferrari,” Ocean addressed the gang for the primary time, hinting {that a} new album is within the works and paying tribute to his late brother, Ryan Breaux. “Who’s on medicine tonight, who’s excessive proper now?” Ocean started. “It’s been so lengthy. Everyone I’ve talked to has stated how lengthy it’s been, so lengthy, so lengthy… however I’ve missed you. I wish to speak about why I’m right here, as a result of it’s not due to the brand new album. Not that there’s not a brand new album, however there’s not proper now. It’s not proper now.”
He continued, “These final couple years my life modified a lot. My brother and I, we got here to this pageant rather a lot. I really feel like I used to be dragged right here a lot of the time. I hated the mud; I at all times handled a respiratory an infection.” He recalled watching Rae Sremmurd together with his brother, dancing in one of many tents. “I do know he would’ve been so excited to be right here with all of us. I needed to say thanks for the assist and the ears and the love for all this time. I’m gonna get again to the songs.” He performed an acoustic model of “Pink + White,” adopted by a sub bass–heavy association of “Solo.”
The set continued with a reworked “Chanel” and what Ocean known as a “rave combine” from DJ Crystalmess, together with membership remixes of Ocean tracks and snippets of Underworld’s “Born Slippy” and Ice Spice’s “Actin a Smoochie.” Throughout the combine and at different factors through the set, Ocean strayed from the mic and danced or paced the stage whereas his prerecorded vocals performed. A punk model of “Wiseman” got here subsequent, earlier than a rendition of Willie Nelson’s “Evening Life” (beforehand lined by the likes of Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye). That was adopted by “Self Management,” “Nikes,” and “Nights.”
He performed his cowl of Isley Brothers’ “(At Your Finest) You Are Love,” as featured on Infinite. Then, the present abruptly ended. “Guys I’m being advised it’s curfew, in order that’s the top of the present,” Ocean stated. “Thanks a lot.” Coachella’s Sunday curfew is midnight Pacific; the present ended some 20 minutes after that.
