Freetown Sound by Blood Orange

Freetown Sound, Dev Hynes's third album as Blood Orange, came out on Domino on 28 June 2016, three days ahead of its announced 1 July date, as the follow-up to Cupid Deluxe. The New York-based songwriter and producer, once of Test Icicles and later Lightspeed Champion, fills it with voices besides his own: Empress Of, Debbie Harry, Nelly Furtado, Kelsey Lu and Carly Rae Jepsen all turn up, drifting in and out of a record that feels more like a collage than a set of songs.

Even the sleeve says something: it's Binky and Tony Forever, a 2009 photograph by the American artist Deana Lawson. "Best To You" is the track that reached the countdowns, and Negro Swan came next.

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