Blood Orange - Essex Honey - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2025 . Essex Honey explores themes of family grief, England, and the healing, communal power of music throughout a lifetime. Lyrically, the album is diaristic yet communal, existing in the haze of memory that often follows a loss. Musically, this is reflected sonically through analog recordings, recurring cello motifs, nods to earlier Blood Orange projects, and various musical interpolations from Hynes' youth. Sonically, the album includes an array of arrangements and instruments like the acoustic guitar with a punk distortion and melodic ethereal tones that were woven into his dreams as a kid growing up in Essex, imagining his future. Essex Honey features contributions from The Durutti Column, Mustafa, Caroline Polachek, Daniel Caesar, Lorde, Zadie Smith, Tirzah, Brendan Yates (Turnstile), and Mabe Fratti. Album Tracks 1. Look at You 2. Thinking Clean 3. Somewhere in Between 4. The Field 5. Mind Loaded 6. Vivid Light 7. Countryside 8. The Last of England 9. Life 10. Westerberg 11. The Train (King's Cross) 12. Scared of It 13. I Listened (Every Night) 14. I Can Go