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BLOOD ORANGE
releases
ESSEX HONEY

+ Shares self-directed music video
for new track
‘COUNTRYSIDE’

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Grammy Award-winning, multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter and producer Blood Orange (aka Dev Hynes) has released his first album in six 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 (outside London) and the way music has inspired, healed, and interwoven itself through Hynes’ life.

Essex Honey is an album tinted with grief and loss, working towards acceptance and resolution, at a time when the culture is collectively feeling grief and loss, collectively trying to work towards resolution and acceptance. It is a beautiful swirl, an elegantly-crafted pastiche of melodies and sounds, assembled in the way only Hynes knows how, crafting an intimate, scintillating whole and one of the best albums of 2025.

The video for ‘Countrytown’ is live now.

Like all Blood Orange albums, Essex Honey comes with an incredible list of collaborators, including Lorde, Caroline Polachek, Daniel Cesar, Mustafa, Turnstile’s Brendan Yates, Tariq Al-Sabir plus author Zadie Smith.

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