Blood Orange has introduced his new album ‘Essex Honey’ and shared the primary two tracks – hearken to ‘Thoughts Loaded’ and ‘Someplace In Between’ under.
The album would be the first album from Blood Orange – aka Dev Hynes – since 2018’s ‘Negro Swan’ and it’ll function appearances from Hynes’ earlier collaborators Lorde, Caroline Polachek, Daniel Caesar, Mustafa, Turnstile’s Brendan Yates and Tariq Al-Sabir.
Additionally showing are writer Zadie Smith, The Durutti Column, Moist’s Kelly Zutrau, Tirzah and actors Naomi Scott and Amandla Stenberg. The report is launched on August 29 through RCA Data and you’ll pre-order it right here.
The primary tastes of ‘Essex Honey’ come within the type of ‘Thoughts Loaded’, a minimalist however blissfully heat observe that options vocals from Polachek, Lorde and Mustafa, and ‘Someplace In Between’, a busier, slinky R&B observe. Take heed to each right here:
A press launch states that ‘Essex Honey’ is an album that has been “created from a dreamscape of his journey working via grief” and harkens again to his childhood rising up within the titular county.
Earlier this month, Hynes introduced particulars of a UK and European tour for Blood Orange that can kick off later this yr. It follows on from his upcoming US tour and kicks off in Berlin on October 29, with London reveals deliberate for November 8, 9 and 10. See the complete checklist of dates right here and discover UK tickets right here and worldwide tickets right here.
A number of of his US dates will see him opening for Lorde on her large tour supporting new album ‘Virgin’, a number of songs of which had been produced by Hynes. He additionally performed cello and bass on the one ‘Man Of The 12 months’ and synths and guitar on ‘Favorite Daughter’.
He continues to be one of the vital in-demand producers in various music, with the information coming this week that he has labored on ‘We Are Love’, the forthcoming new album from The Charlatans.
He additionally appeared on Turnstile’s ‘Seein’ Stars’ from the album ‘By no means Sufficient’ this summer season, contributing backing vocals, and in addition performed cello on ‘By no means Sufficient’ and ‘Look Out For Me’.
In a five-star overview of ‘Negro Swan’ in 2018, NME wrote: “Spoken-word interludes from author and transgender activist Janet Mock pepper the album, punctuating the stream-of-conscious, journey-into-the-unknown expertise. At occasions, ‘Negro Swan’ crosses over from album and right into a radio station from a world simply outdoors ours; Dev Hynes has created a superb assortment of cascading sounds.”
