Essex Honey Blood Orange 2 LP Black

2 LP Edition.

Blood Orange's new album is titled Essex Honey. It explores themes such as family grief, England, and the healing and communal power of music throughout a lifetime.

Lyrically, the album is intimate yet communal, moving through the haze of memories that often follows loss. Musically, this is reflected in the sound through analog recordings, recurring cello motifs, nods to previous Blood Orange projects, and various musical interpolations from Hynes' youth. Sonically, the album includes a variety of arrangements and instruments, such as acoustic guitar with punk distortion and ethereal melodic tones that wove through his dreams as a child growing up in Essex, imagining his future.
Essex Honey features collaborations with The Durutti Column, Mustafa, Caroline Polachek, Daniel Caesar, Lorde, Zadie Smith, Tirzah, Brendan Yates (Turnstile), and Mabe Fratti.

The album was self-produced and mixed by Dev alongside Mikaelin "Blue" Bluespruce, with mastering by Heba Kadry.