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Blood Orange sets release date for new album
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 8 June 2016
Blood Orange, aka Devonte Hynes, will release his new album, ‘Freetown Sound’, on 1 Jul digitally and 19 Aug physically, it has been announced.
“I have just finished making an album about my life, my upbringing, being black in England, being black in America”, he says of the record. “My movement to this country at the age of 21, the same age that my mother moved from Guyana to London, and my father from Sierra Leone to London. ‘Freetown Sound’, the name of my album, is taken from Freetown where my father was born”.
Hynes will also be performing live at Koko in London on 5 Jul. Tickets are available here.
You can hear some snippets from the new record here.
