“Dev Hynes’ third album as Blood Orange is a searing and soothing personal document, striking the same resonant chords as Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly or D’Angelo’s Black Messiah.”
“The key to getting your head around Blood Orange’s sprawling, hugely ambitious and occasionally unwieldy third album lies with two songs you won’t find on the tracklisting. In his annotations to the lyrics of ‘Sandra’s Smile’ – released last October following the controversial death of Black Lives Matter activist Sandra Bland – Devonté Hynes wrote that the song’s themes of forgiveness and black Ch”
“R&B innovator explores identity and refuses borders on a deep avant-pop mixtape.”
“Blood Orange gets personal on the ambitious, and often chaotic, Freetown Sound”
“Blood Orange makes an ambitious return with Freetown Sound.”
