Blood Orange mastermind Dev Hynes is always busy doing film and TV scores and helping other people out on their records, but he hasn’t released a full-on Blood Orange album since 2018’s Negro Swan. That’s about to change. Last month, Blood Orange released the new single “The Field,” an absolutely gorgeous collaboration with an unexpected group of people: the Durutti Column, Tariq Al-Sabir, Caroline Polachek, and Daniel Caesar. That turns out to be the first single from a new Blood Orange album called Essex Honey. It’s coming out next month, and it’ll feature a great many collaborators, some of whom have worked with Blood Orange before and some of whom are entirely new to the fold, or to music itself.
