Blood Orange the project of artist/producer Dev Hynes, will drop his new album Essex Honey on August 29th, 2025 via RCA Records. The LP was Written, produced, and recorded by Hynes. The album is a soundtrack created from a dreamscape of his journey working through grief. It is also an album about growing up in Essex (outside London) and the way music has inspired and healed Hynes’ life. Ahead of it’s release Blood has shared the singles “Mind Loaded” and “Somewhere In Between.”

Essex Honey features numerous collaborators, many with long time creative realationships, including Lorde, Caroline Polachek, Daniel Cesar, Mustafa, Turnstile’s Brendan Yates, Tariq Al-Sabir, author Zadie Smith – singing on an album for the first time – Ian Isiah, Tirzah, Eva Tolkin, The Durutti Column, Wet’s Kelly Zutrau, actors Naomi Scott and Amandala Stenberg, and Liam Benzvi.

Since 2012, he has produced Mariah Carey and ASAP Rocky to Carly Rae Jepsen and Lorde. In 2022, Hynes opened 15 shows at Madison Square Garden for Harry Styles, in addition to music directing Styles’ Grammy performance of “Watermelon Sugar” (in which he also played bass). He has spent the last three years selling out shows internationally performing his own classical compositions in London, Sydney, Toronto, and more, while also scoring Luca Guadagnino’s HBO show We Are Who We Are, Rebecca Hall’s Passing, Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener and shows for fashion house Marni twice a season.

Blood Orange tour dates:

Sun Sep 21 – San Francisco – Portola Music Festival
Tue Sep 23 – Columbus – KEMBA LIVE! w/ Turnstile
Wed Sep 24 – Richmond – Brown’s Island w/ Turnstile
Fri Sep 26 – Boston – TD Garden w/ Lorde
Sat Sep 27 – Montreal – Bell Centre w/ Lorde
Tue Sep 30 – Philadelphia – Wells Fargo Center w/ Lorde
Tue Oct 14 – Morrison – Red Rocks Amphitheatre w/ Lorde
Fri Oct 17 – Las Vegas – MGM Grand Garden w/ Lorde
Sat Oct 18 – Inglewood – Kia Forum w/ Lorde
Wed Oct 29 – Berlin, Germany – Columbiahalle
Fri Oct 31 – Torino – C2C Festival @ Lingotto Fiere Torino
Mon Nov 3 – Paris – Pitchfork Festival @ L’Olympia
Tue Nov 4 – Utrecht, Netherlands – TivoliVredenburg
Fri Nov 7 – London, UK – Alexandra Palace Theater
Sat Nov 8 – London, UK – Alexandra Palace Theatre
Sun Nov 9 – London, UK – Alexandra Palace Theatre
Mon Nov 10 – London, UK – Alexandra Palace Theatre
Thu Nov 13 – Bristol, UK – Electric Bristol
Sat Nov 15 – Manchester – AO Arena w/ Lorde
Wed Nov 19 – Toronto, ON – History
Thu Nov 20 – Toronto, ON – History
Sat Nov 29 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
Sun Nov 30 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
Tue Dec 2 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
Wed Dec 3 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
Thu Dec 4 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
Fri Dec 5 -Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel

Ore-order Essex Honey by Blood Orange HERE