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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Dev Hynes as Blood Orange features contributions from Daniel Caesar, Mabe Fratti, Lorde, Mustafa, Caroline Polachek, Zadie Smith, The Durutti Column, Tirzah, and Brendan Yates.
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- Record Label: RCA
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Aug 29, 2025For the most part, the guests stay in the background, out of the spotlight. They’re there in service to the songs and an atmosphere that continues to haunt you long after Essex Honey ends: grief marshalling a unique talent into music that’s desperately sad, but beautiful, a particularly resonant broadcast from Blood Orange’s irregular world.
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Sep 2, 2025“Essex Honey” isn’t something you’d put on to rock a party, but it’s perfect for the last hour of one, when people are winding down, or just a night at home with dim lighting — a chill masterpiece that isn’t for every mood but is perfect for many.
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Sep 5, 2025Essex Honey is both a love letter to growing up in the English countryside and a reminder that acceptance is necessary in order to heal.
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Aug 29, 2025Essex Honey, with its cool, crisp textures and elliptical rhythms, is expansive and beguiling, an inviting place to rest in a chaotic year.
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Sep 12, 2025‘Essex Honey’ isn’t about convention or the norm; as Dev continues to push against these boundaries, surrounded by acclaimed like-minded contemporaries, he delivers something far from easy but certainly entrancing.
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Sep 2, 2025Few albums are this emotionally refined, giving us a real sense of grief — when life comes at you fast — while somehow distilling the “it is what it is” mundanity of seeing water drip down the drain. At the end of the day, Blood Orange catches more flies with Essex Honey.
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Aug 29, 2025While Hynes lyrically explores loss, memory, and loneliness, he still finds ways to elegantly break through the fog with moments of joy, ecstasy, and comfort.