Blood Orange announces new record Freetown Sound
Blood Orange - aka Dev Hynes - has announced his new LP Freetown Sound, calling it "like my version of [Beastie Boys record] Paul's Boutique".
Hynes has kept quiet about the long-awaited follow up to 2013 long-player Cupid Deluxe, although he has revealed new music - such as recent songs "Do You See My Skin Through The Flames?" and "Sandra's Smile".
Speaking in an interview with V Magazine, Hynes describes the album: "It’s pretty strange. There are a lot of samples on this record, but not necessarily songs made from samples. It’s all me. It’s inspired by old Dust Brothers records, very cut and paste. It’s like my version of Paul’s Boutique. It kind of plays like a long mix tape."
"The record addresses the way Christianity was brought to West Africa," Hynes says. "... and the way black households held on very tightly to Christianity because it was this beacon of hope…and how eventually this somehow led to someone in a school telling me not to use my left hand. It’s been very interesting for me trying to understand and tie all of these things together. It’s been a way of working through it. There’s also a lot of stuff about race and specifically things that have happened to me."
Freetown Sound is expected to arrive at some point in the coming months.
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