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I have a million notebooks. I remember thinking, No one really cares what Thug Life means. Yeah, percent.

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Dev Hynes on his new music as Blood Orange, fluid sexuality and why he still suffers from panic attacks He’s mates with Florence and Alexa and has the critics in raptures. When I first wrote that melody, it was about a couple of friends of mine that overdosed on heroin and died in the last few years.

I hear it as a scroll, like a Twitter feed, with ideas and hyperlinks. In that sense, Freetown Sound is a post-colonial album. And if you were to ever look at my computer, I have like 50 tabs open. Too many notebooks.

As we sit on a park bench to begin the interview in earnest, our attention spans are under constant assault by a barrage of everyday noise and visual activity that crosses our path like a moving panorama. In the broiling afternoon sun, Hynes and I stroll a few more blocks and wind up at Washington Square Park, at the southern end of opulent Fifth Avenue.

Dev Hynes: I love parks in New York.

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The simple idea of someone letting you in is a beautiful thing. Pitchfork: A lot of the record was written here in Washington Square Park. Escorted in a wheelchair, the year-old is rocking an unmissable, electric pair of African print pants. Along the way, his eccentric musical and visual choices have made him a unique emblem of destabilized, fluid expressions of gender, sexuality, and race.

I love the intertextuality of your music—the idea that anyone listening has to know and recognize multiple texts that are speaking to each other in order to go deeper into the work. Plus, as he says, it reminds him of his UK origins, South London in particular.

At one point, iconic visual artist Chuck Close passes by, close enough that we could reach out and touch him. I read a lot in parks too. Devonté Hynes (born David Joseph Michael Hynes, [5] 23 December ), also known as Blood Orange and formerly Lightspeed Champion, is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, composer and director based in New York City.

I usually read six books at the same time, bouncing between stuff. What is it about this place? They released one full-length album in Blood Orange lead singer would like you to stop dissecting his sexuality, please. So I stood at the point where I could hear both musicians and recorded it.

From toHynes was a member of the band Test Icicles, playing guitar, synth, and occasionally performing vocals. It serves as an abstract musical reminder that we may be a lot less free than we sometimes think we are. Brimming with eager NYU students, camera-toting tourists, breakdancing hucksters, contemplative painters with easels, and all manner of wannabe hippies, the park is where Hynes took daily sojourns to conceptualize and write much of Freetown Sound.

As our interview unfolds, I begin to see Hynes as an exquisite tastemaker who has somehow managed to find a way to feel free enough to pursue the volcanic, hyper-associative ideas in his head and his heart, no matter the personal cost or industry implications.

I record a lot of the audio that happens. After an unfortunate mishap with some takeout that ends up splattered on the pavement, Hynes ditches his PR team, and the two of us saunter down Sullivan Street.