Blood Orange Announces New Album Freetown Sound
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Dev Hynes has announced that the title of his next Blood Orange album will be Freetown Sound. He discussed the follow-up to 2013′s Cupid Deluxe in a new interview with Pitchfork contributor T. Cole Rachel for V Magazine, revealing that it will be out this spring. “It’s inspired by old Dust Brothers records, very cut and paste,” he told Rachel. “It’s like my version of Paul’s Boutique. It kind of plays like a long mix tape.” Later, he said, “It talks a lot about sexuality and displacement and life in the city—so it’s definitely very personal, but in doing that I think it’s probably the most relatable thing I’ve ever done.”
He also said:
This is a very layered and very deep record for me. There’s a lot of meaning behind all of the choices I’ve made for this one. It looks into my childhood and examines who I am at this point in my life. There are so many crazy layers to it that it’s actually quite hard to talk about it, but the record is very reflective of how my brain works. This is gonna sound terrifying, but there is a strong theme of Christianity on the record. When I was growing up, Christianity was drilled into my head so intensely, to the point where, as a child, I was meant to be left-handed but was forced to use my right instead. Left-handedness was seen as a sign of darkness. Freetown Sound also has a lot to do with Freetown—the capital of Sierra Leone—which is where my dad is from. The record addresses the way Christianity was brought to West Africa 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.
Last year, Hynes shared 46 minutes of unreleased music, scored the film Palo Alto, collaborated with Nelly Furtado on “Hadron Collider,” and shared the tracks “Do You See My Skin Through the Flames?” and “Sandra’s Smile.”
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