Devonte Hynes, known as Blood Orange, prepares a fifth studio album titled Essex Honey rooted in memories of Ilford between London and Essex. The album concept began as a phonetic play and evolved into an exploration of growing up and the mental idea of home. Tracks tied to his formative years were recorded thousands of miles away, with Hynes describing the ability to enter a constructed place in his head while working. The record shifts toward smoother, somber tones reminiscent of Negro Swan rather than the livelier Angel's Pulse, reflecting a reflective, homeward turn in tone.
"It wasn't like a plan, it just kind of happened," he remembers. "It's not so much the physical but more the mental. I think it's more that I started thinking about growing up and my time there, and maybe ... trying to understand how formative it was."
"have a place in my head and then it doesn't really matter where I do it."
"The place in my head was England, but I could go anywhere and get that done, in a way," he adds. "It's almost like I build what the surroundings are, and then once I have that, whenever I work on the record, it feels like I'm entering the place."
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