It’s been three years since Blood Orange dropped the excellent Cupid Deluxe, but he’s been far from silent. He’s alluded to new music regularly and even previewed some new music before the end of last year. He also had one hell of a show at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, bringing out some great guests from the mounting list of cosigns. Today, He’s finally revealed some concrete details about his next full-length offering. In an interview with V Magazine, he disclosed the album’s title, Freetown Sound, and went into detail about its sound and substance.

Here’s Hynes on the new album’s sound:

It’s pretty strange. There are a lot of samples on this record, but not necessarily songs made from samples. It’s all me. It’s inspired by old Dust Brothers records, very cut and paste. It’s like my version of Paul’s Boutique. It kind of plays like a long mix tape.

And here’s his take on the subject matter:

I’m always writing and recording a ton of stuff and putting it together in playlists. Eventually I’ll start to see the shape of it come together. This is a very layered and very deep record for me. There’s a lot of meaning behind all of the choices I’ve made for this one. It looks into my childhood and examines who I am at this point in my life. There are so many crazy layers to it that it’s actually quite hard to talk about it, but the record is very reflective of how my brain works. This is gonna sound terrifying, but there is a strong theme of Christianity on the record. When I was growing up, Christianity was drilled into my head so intensely, to the point where, as a child, I was meant to be left-handed but was forced to use my right instead. Left-handedness was seen as a sign of darkness. Freetown Sound also has a lot to do with Freetown — the capital of Sierra Leone — which is where my dad is from. The record addresses the way Christianity was brought to West Africa and the way black households held on very tightly to Christianity because it was this beacon of hope… and how eventually this somehow led to someone in a school telling me not to use my left hand. It’s been very interesting for me trying to understand and tie all of these things together. It’s been a way of working through it. There’s also a lot of stuff about race and specifically things that have happened to me.

No word on a release date for Freetown Sound as of yet. In the meantime, read the interview in its entirety here.