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Dev Hynes AKA Blood Orange releases his first album in 6 years- 'Essex Honey'.

Written, produced, and recorded by Hynes, 'Essex Honey' is a soundtrack created from a dreamscape of his journey working through grief. It is also an album about growing up in Essex and the way music has inspired, healed, and interwoven itself through Hynes’ life.

STAFF COMMENTS

Millie says: It’s been six long years but Blood Orange has dropped something worth holding out for, ‘Essex Honey’ fixes that gaping absence of new music from the incredibly talented, Dev Hynes. The album holds those trademark feelings, iconic piano arrangements, but mostly there is hauntingly beautiful vocals which leaves an emotional rippling effect throughout.

The track “Mind Loaded” set part of the internet alight, the collaboration between Lorde, Caroline Polachek & Mustafa has been fulfilled and it’s magnificent. The vocals reach an ethereal level, and not to mention the Elliott Smith reference.

Exploring themes of grief and growing up in England, Hynes’ introspective song writing will always be emotive and soulful. It feels as though Dev Hynes can almost tap into a nostalgia or feeling you didn’t know you had, that’s the Blood Orange effect.

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