Artist:
Blood Orange (Dev Hynes)
Genre:
Pop/Rock
R&B
Total Time:
46:30
Record Label:
RCA Records
Purchase Album (click links):
CD, MP3, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
August 29, 2025
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Blood Orange (Dev Hynes)
Genre:
Pop/Rock
R&B
Total Time:
46:30
Record Label:
RCA Records
Purchase Album (click links):
CD, MP3, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
August 29, 2025
"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
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Product Description: In the seven years since Dev Hynes last released an album as Blood Orange, the English musician wasn’t exactly twiddling his thumbs. After 2018’s searching Negro Swan, the scene veteran released a mixtape (Angel’s Pulse) and an EP (Four Songs), composed soundtracks for film and TV, and hopped on records with Lorde, Turnstile, and Vampire Weekend. All the while, he contemplated the future of Blood Orange. “I’m always making music,” Hynes tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. But before he could release it, he had to answer his own questions: “Why should it exist? What’s the point?” Then Hynes’ mother died in 2023, and the direction for the fifth Blood Orange album, Essex Honey, became clear.
Set in the county outside London that Hynes once called home, it’s a sublime examination of what “home” even means, refracted in the prism of his elegant hybrid of hazy pop, feather-light funk, and ghosts of post-punk and New Wave. Echoes of distant music memories forge pathways into the past: “Regressing back to times you know/Playing songs you forgot you owned/Change a memory, make it 4/3,” Hynes sings on “Westerberg,” its title a nod to The Replacements’ lead singer and its hook a play on the band’s 1987 track “Alex Chilton.”
More Easter eggs are buried in the bass grooves, sax solos, distorted guitars, and orchestral swoons—a Durutti Column sample on “The Field,” an Elliott Smith interpolation sung by Lorde on “Mind Loaded,” a line about writer’s block delivered by Zadie Smith on “Vivid Light.” The prevailing mood is liminal, surrendered between past and present, though in Hynes’ hands, purgatory sounds heavenly.
Set in the county outside London that Hynes once called home, it’s a sublime examination of what “home” even means, refracted in the prism of his elegant hybrid of hazy pop, feather-light funk, and ghosts of post-punk and New Wave. Echoes of distant music memories forge pathways into the past: “Regressing back to times you know/Playing songs you forgot you owned/Change a memory, make it 4/3,” Hynes sings on “Westerberg,” its title a nod to The Replacements’ lead singer and its hook a play on the band’s 1987 track “Alex Chilton.”
More Easter eggs are buried in the bass grooves, sax solos, distorted guitars, and orchestral swoons—a Durutti Column sample on “The Field,” an Elliott Smith interpolation sung by Lorde on “Mind Loaded,” a line about writer’s block delivered by Zadie Smith on “Vivid Light.” The prevailing mood is liminal, surrendered between past and present, though in Hynes’ hands, purgatory sounds heavenly.
TRACK LIST:
1 .Look At You
(02:59)
2 . Thinking Clean (03:35)
3 . Somewhere in Between (03:24)
4 . The Field Blood Orange feat. The Durutti Column, Tariq Al-Sabir, Caroline Polachek & Daniel Caesar (03:19)
5 . Mind Loaded Blood Orange feat. Caroline Polachek, Lorde & Mustafa (03:38)
6 . Vivid Light (04:22)
7 . Countryside Blood Orange feat. Eva Tolkin, Liam Benzvi & Ian Isiah (03:11)
8 . The Last of England (03:54)
9 . Life Blood Orange feat. Tirzah & Charlotte Dos Santos (02:52)
10 . Westerberg Blood Orange feat. Eva Tolkin & Liam Benzvi (03:26)
11 . The Train (King's Cross) Blood Orange feat. Caroline Polachek (02:48)
12 . Scared of It Blood Orange feat. Brendan Yates & Ben Watt (02:41)
13 . I Listened (Every Night) (03:35)
14 .I Can Go Blood Orange feat. Mabe Fratti & Mustafa (02:51)
2 . Thinking Clean (03:35)
3 . Somewhere in Between (03:24)
4 . The Field Blood Orange feat. The Durutti Column, Tariq Al-Sabir, Caroline Polachek & Daniel Caesar (03:19)
5 . Mind Loaded Blood Orange feat. Caroline Polachek, Lorde & Mustafa (03:38)
6 . Vivid Light (04:22)
7 . Countryside Blood Orange feat. Eva Tolkin, Liam Benzvi & Ian Isiah (03:11)
8 . The Last of England (03:54)
9 . Life Blood Orange feat. Tirzah & Charlotte Dos Santos (02:52)
10 . Westerberg Blood Orange feat. Eva Tolkin & Liam Benzvi (03:26)
11 . The Train (King's Cross) Blood Orange feat. Caroline Polachek (02:48)
12 . Scared of It Blood Orange feat. Brendan Yates & Ben Watt (02:41)
13 . I Listened (Every Night) (03:35)
14 .I Can Go Blood Orange feat. Mabe Fratti & Mustafa (02:51)
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