QuoteBlood Orange Announces New Album Negro Swan
Dev Hynes? next full-length arrives in August
Blood Orange (aka producer/composer/multi-instrumentalist Devont? Hynes) has announced a new album, Negro Swan. The follow-up to 2016?s Freetown Sound arrives August 24 via Domino. Find the artwork below; scroll down for Hynes? upcoming tour dates.
?My newest album is an exploration into my own and many types of black depression, an honest look at the corners of black existence, and the ongoing anxieties of queer/people of color,? Hynes said in a statement. ?A reach back into childhood and modern traumas, and the things we do to get through it all. The underlying thread through each piece on the album is the idea of hope, and the lights we can try to turn on within ourselves with a hopefully positive outcome of helping others out of their darkness.?
In October 2017, Dev Hynes said, ?A lot of the new songs on the new album deal with growing up and childhood in England.... Looking at the country that made me.? He added, ?If Freetown was delving into my parents from my eyes, being younger and now, this one is definitely me looking at my younger self, growing up in that setting. So yeah, it?s a little dark.? He shared a Negro Swan teaser back in March. See the album artwork and tracklist below.
Earlier this year, Hynes shared two singles called ?Christopher & 6th? and ?June 12th? for black history month. Blood Orange is playing this year?s Pitchfork Music Festival, which takes place from July 20-22 at Chicago?s Union Park. Tickets are available now.
Read Pitchfork?s 2016 feature interview ?The Realest Out: A Conversation With Blood Orange?s Dev Hynes.?
https://pitchfork.com/news/blood-orange-announces-new-album-negro-swan/
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I love him!
Looking forward to this!
Freetown Sound was excellent :loose2when: