blood orange

The only album I have heard from them/him? is Cupid Deluxe and I love it, in the same vein as Solange and that Drake song that sounds like a song. Is the new or the previous album good?

Just investigated and you all already knew this but Blood Orange produced Solange's Losing You which also sounds like the inspiration to Hold On We're Going Home so it seems like he is the reason I like those two.

i used to be all "he is surely the reason i like both 'losing you' and 'everything is embarrassing'" but his own records are not v compelling at all, he is not a very convincing performer despite the super obvious influences he wears on his sleeve

like srsly imagine how bad "everything is embarrasing" could easily have been had he recorded it himself: https://soundcloud.com/user43036935/dev-hynes-everything-is-embarrassing-demo

Leaked demo of a track apparently sent to Britney for "Britney Jean". Kinda chillwavey. I like it. https://soundcloud.com/user43036935/dev-hynes-britney-demo-1-no

http://www.stereogum.com/1792012/watch-carly-rae-jepsen-dev-hynes-ariel-rechtshaid-debut-all-that-on-snl/video/

this is being talked about on the carly rae jepsen thread

its good

xpost i figured there'd be a few blood orange fans who didn't follow that thread?

oh yeah for sure

New track. Still don't know what to make of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLPsk89aUKw

i like the video

does this guy have the narrowest range of any really good songwriter/producer of recent years?

nearly all the tracks i've heard from him--his "own" stuff and the stuff he produces for other singers--is working a very similar instrumental palette, songwriting style, mood.... it's a nice mood, to be sure.

i went a listened to all his production/songwriting credits from other artists a while ago (as listed on wikipedia dot org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dev_Hynes_discography) and some of them are more "blood orange" than others the ones that are both good and have that sound are imo

http://i.imgur.com/51Wnuv1.png

its p cool to have someone writing and producing with such a left field vibe

oh also: flying overseas - theophilus london

dev hynes had to move to ny to learn how to be cool

this is still prob my favorite thing he's done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI4NlOCTD3U

thats dope ty

i really like everything he's done but i wish he'd do more like this tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvbOWR-Zvdg

about to listen to a review copy of the new album, was like "hey wonder what ilx thinks about this dude" and hoooooooooooooly bejesus lol, did not know hynes was a cause of such contention.

i can /sorta/ see why people think it's the dreaded hipsterrnb but more than anything else the motivation behind that line of thinking m/l boils down to "urban outfitters locations have played his songs before." anyway, carly rae jepsen is featured on a track! excited to check this out.

stoked 4 this

it's good. somewhat uneven, and so anyone who's annoyed by the pastiche aspect of his arrangements will find that aesthetic in full flight here. but a lot of fun imo. "sandra's smile" isn't on it, which is odd considering how prominent sociopolitical concerns are throughout the record

cupid deluxe is a really good record

cupid deluxe is pretty good but the way he always uses completely static drum loops is frustrating

i fn love cupid deluxe

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/arts/music/dev-hynes-blood-orange-freetown-sound.html

NY Times writer Jon Caramanica hangs out with Hynes at various NY locations--studios, parks, the ballet, uptown, east village,

i tried to read that but it was too much "new york is a mysterious mistress"

although

lag∞n
Posted: November 25, 2015 at 3:01:20 PM
dev hynes had to move to ny to learn how to be cool

It Is What It Is

tru

damn... That caramanica profile a brutal hit by the cringe-mafia

imo to like this guy's music is to have a crush on him but reading someone so in thrall to a flâneur-type is weird cuz they paint the most banal activities as some rarefied shit, like 'he sits in parks... plays sports... walks the streets... pays for tickets to the ballet... and he has Unlocked The Secret To The City Of New York"

also lol at this

That sort of engagement feels almost antiquated, a product of an older time when place was something close to destiny. That’s no longer the case. It is less essential than ever, in this time of easy mobility of ideas and internet-driven transnational fame, for an artist to identify with one spot in the world. To be, in essence, local.

being immediately followed by 'oh and his snapchat is the bomb'

dev just ~surprise-dropped~ the new album, it's available across all platforms

http://i.imgur.com/I2gIuks.jpg

uhh doesnt he know ur supposed to put the slam poetry in the last song

i thought the intro was good! appropriately tone-setting

Get ready for some think pieces

oh damn "E.V.P." and "Desirée" are sooooo good, definitely feeling this

ha i just reread this whole thread and its so good

Jesus, that Caramanica piece. That's what a Harvard education will buy you, I guess. "When friends like Florence Welch have concerts, he goes." Really living the NYC life to the max there.

Man this album is so fine. 'But You' has the most lush chorus Garth Greenside hasn't written in years.

garth greenside

oh shi..

#blood

kinda uneven sounding to me.

i dont' like this nearly as much as the last one, on first listen, but it might be a grower. I also haven't listened to it intently, just put it on in the house

Don't really get the hype around this one

tricked into listening to some mediocre wispy pop thanks to a Carly Rae Jepsen feature, gutted

I can't get into this yet. On "Augustine" he sounds even duller than Solange.

i love the single. chorus is very tame impala. though the whole thing could have been released in 1986 apart from the 90s R&B breaks.

tricked into listening to some mediocre wispy pop thanks to a Carly Rae Jepsen feature, gutted

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lol adult children of teen pop

This is a lovely-sounding record that could use more actual songs.