Blood Orange - Essex Honey

Blood Orange returns in 2025 with their new album, Essex Honey.

It 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.

This 2LP vinyl edition was produced by RCA Records in 2025. 45RPM.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Look At You
2. Thinking Clean
3. Somewhere In Between
4. The Field (ft. The Durutti Column, Tariq Al-Sabir, Caroline Polachek, & Daniel Caesar)
5. Mind Loaded (ft. Caroline Polachek, Lorde, & Mustafa)
6. Vivid Light
7. Countryside (feate. Eva Tolkin, Liam Benzvi, & Ian Isiah)
8. The Last Of England
9. Life (feat. Tirzah & Charlotte Dos Santos)
10. Westerberg (feat. Eva Tokin & LIam Benzvi)
11. The Train (King's Cross) [feat. Caroline Polachek]
12. Scared Of It (feat. Brendan Yates & Ben Watt)
13. I Listened (Every Night)
14. I Can Go (feat Mabe Fratti & Mustafa)