Blood Orange - Essex Honey 2LP

Dev Hynes AKA Blood Orange announces the release of his album in 6 years - "Essex Honey". Lorde, Caroline Polachek and Turnstile’s Brendan Yates all feature.

It explores themes of family grief, England and the healing, communal power of music throughout a lifetime. Lyrically, the album is diaristic yet communal, existing in the haze of memory that often follows a loss. Musically, this is reflected sonically through analog recordings, recurring cello motifs, nods to earlier Blood Orange projects, and various musical interpolations from Hynes' youth.

Sonically, the album includes an array of arrangements and instruments like the acoustic guitar with a punk distortion and melodic ethereal tones that were woven into his dreams as a kid growing up in Essex, imagining his future. "Essex Honey" features contributions from The Durutti Column, Mustafa, Caroline Polachek, Daniel Caesar, Lorde, Zadie Smith, Tirzah, Brendan Yates (Turnstile) and Mabe Fratti.

Tracklist:

1. Look at You
2. Thinking Clean
3. Somewhere In Between
4. The Field [feat. The Durutti Column, Tariq Al-Sabir, Caroline Polachek and Daniel Caesar]
5. Mind Loaded [feat. Caroline Polachek, Lorde and Mustafa]
6. Vivid Light
7. Countryside [feat. Eva Tolkin, Liam Benzvi and Ian Isiah]
8. The Last of England
9. Life [feat. Tirzah and Charlotte Dos Santos]
10. Westerberg [feat. Eva Tolkin and Liam Benzvi]
11. The Train (King's Cross)
12. Scared of It [feat. Brendan Yates]
13. I Listened (Every Night)
14. I Can Go [feat. Mabe Fratti and Mustafa]

About this product: this release is pressed on 2x black vinyl (plays at 45rpm), housed in a gatefold sleeve.