Channel Orange is where Frank Ocean stopped being a ghostwriter and a mixtape artist and became whatever he is now. The record moves like a radio being tuned across one long California night, Thinkin Bout You into Sweet Life into Super Rich Kids into Pyramids, which runs almost ten minutes and changes shape twice. Andre 3000, John Mayer and Earl Sweatshirt turn up. The writing is plain and devastating, the arrangements are soft enough to sneak past you, and it has aged into a record people still talk about like it came out last year.