Blood Orange releases new single "Essex_Honey.mp3" following acclaimed 2025 album
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Blood Orange (Dev Hynes) has released a new single titled "Essex_Honey.mp3," following up on his 2025 album Essex Honey. The track continues the album's style of woozy meditations set to old-school rave beats, evoking hazy memories. Since the album's release, Hynes and collaborators have toured with Lorde and Turnstile, played festivals, and covered the Smiths and Coldplay.
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The song sounds like it's trapped in hazy memory.
Last summer, Blood Orange released Essex Honey, his first proper album in seven years. It’s awesome, and it’s on our list of the best albums of 2025. Since, then Dev Hynes and his collaborators have played a bunch of festivals, toured with collaborators L
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