Tag: Blood Orange
Best Albums of 2025
Compared to the movies released in 2025, there’s no denying that the musical offerings were slightly more exciting and arguably more billable as being part [Read More…]
Grief, Place and Lost Youth: The Dominating Themes of Blood Orange’s Elegiacal Essex Honey
Like Kali Uchis with Sincerely, Blood Orange’s (a.k.a. Dev Hynes) latest album, Essex Honey, is entirely colored by the death of his mother. An event [Read More…]
No Need to Proceed With Caution: Mariah Still Kills It On Latest Album
After the extremely bipolar in title and content Me. I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse four years ago, it’s nice to see Mariah Carey coming back with a [Read More…]
Dev Hynes Cannot Be Reduced to “Kendrick Lamar for Queer Black Folk” on Negro Swan
Because just as the movie industry enjoys saying things like, “It’s Sharknado meets La La Land,” so, too, does the music biz relish the opportunity [Read More…]
The Albums That Brought A Sparkle of Hope to 2016
Politically and personally, 2016 was unkind to most. But in between the sucker punches and the disenchantment, there was the music that got us through [Read More…]