Stream the Blood Orange LP

I couldn't get Sutphin Boulevard out of my head when I first heard it several weeks ago. Not that this is a bad thing, I can think of far worse melodies to have knocking around ones head. But now the album can be streamed it seems I will be incessantly humming a good few more of Dev Hynes' catchy eightiesesque gems.

I'm Sorry We Lied is definitely one of these tracks. It features a surprising Foals/Battles influence with its plucky palm-muted guitars fueling the tracks sense of urgency.

The album is released today on Domino.

Blood Orange - Sutphin Boulevard

This is slick. There is a person at the start of the video who is walking in time with the music, this is awesome.

Devonté Hynes is back, this time bearing the slightly more unusual alias of Blood Orange. Many of you may be more familiar with his earlier work under the moniker of Lightspeed Champion, the insanely cool New York based songwriter known for his uber-sharp dress sense. He wrote those songs for Florence & the Machine? Diana Vickers? The Chemical Brothers?

Below is the seedy video for Sutphin Boulevard; this one is for all the Prince fans out there...

Sutphin Boulevard is released on August 1st, and the album Coastal Grooves is released on August 8th.