Overview

• Dev Hynes releases his fifth Blood Orange album on RCA Records with an August 29, 2025 street date, ending a six-year gap between studio LPs.
• Reviews from NME and the Guardian praise an elegiac work shaped by his mother’s death and grounded in Essex and Ilford imagery.
• The record blends R&B, pop and electronica with abrupt jump-cuts and disruptive cello passages by Cæcilie Trier to sustain late-summer melancholy.
• The first single, The Field, showcases the album’s palette and carries a Durutti Column credit, with other nods to the Replacements, Yo La Tengo and Ben Watt.
• Contributors include Lorde, Caroline Polachek, Daniel Caesar, Mustafa, Brendan Yates, Tariq Al‑Sabir, Zadie Smith, Ian Isiah and Tirzah, with several parts woven subtly or left uncredited.