Blood Orange

Devonté Hynes has produced a lot of music. Some for himself: Testicicles, Lightspeed Champion and some for others: Basement Jaxx, Florence & The Machine, Theophilus London, Solange Knowles, Cassie, Diana Vickers. Somewhere in between all of this, Blood Orange was created.

Life moves pretty fast, and Devonte Hynes keeps busy. The ten tracks on Coastal Grooves cement his triumphant solo return this summer – as Blood Orange – to the world of popular music. Here, in an already long and bogglingly varied career, is the most exciting selection of songs that this celebrated polymath has ever assembled. Dev moves pretty fast, and Blood Orange gets busy.

Young and free and out there on his own, the young Devonte Hynes has made a truly cutting-edge album of perfectly beautiful songs. Coastal Grooves sounds old, it sounds new, it sounds like nothing that anyone else has ever done before. It’s black and proud. It kills dancefloors. It breaks hearts. “I’m pretty sure that the next album I do is going to be a Blood Orange one…” says Dev (reassuringly!), “I’ve already got it finished, and I have to say – and am honestly never the person say this kind of thing normally – it is actually fucking awesome.” We believe him.