Blood Orange – Essex Honey 2LP

Double vinyl LP pressed at 45 RPM. 2025 release. Essex Honey 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.

A1 Look At You
A2 Thinking Clean
A3 Somewhere In Between
A4 The Field Feat. The Durutti Column, Tariq Al-Sabir, Caroline Polachek & Daniel Caesar
B1 Mind Loaded Feat. Caroline Polachek, Lorde & Mustafa
B2 Vivid Light
B3 Countryside Feat. Eva Tolkin, Liam Benzvi & Ian Isiah
C1 The Last Of England
C2 Life
C3 Westerberg Feat. Eva Tolkin & Liam Benzvi
D1 The Train (King’s Cross) [feat. Caroline Polachek]
D2 Scared Of It Feat. Brendan Yates & Ben Watt
D3 I Listened (Every Night)
D4 I Can Go Feat. Mabbe Fratti & Mustafa