Dev Hynes has announced a new Blood Orange album shortly after the release of the Angel’s Pulse mixtape.
Fields is a collection of classical compositions written by Hynes and arranged and performed by Third Coast Percussion. It will be released on October 11th. “This was the first time I’ve written music that I’ve never played, and I love that,” Hynes reflects.
“It’s something I’ve always been striving to get to. Seeing what Third Coast Percussion had done with these pieces was magical.”
In our 7.5/10 review, we described Angel’s Pulse as a ‘form of healing in itself’: “Some of the things about Devonte Hynes make a lot more sense now,” the review begins.
“Back in the mid-noughties, whilst most of the other kids in his east London boroughs were musically drawn to the exploding popularity of the grime scene, he formed proto nu ravers Test Icicles, before moving on to front a near-solo project as Lightspeed Champion. Despite the relative successes of both, it was still hard to place where either fit, or what future they would have.”