Last summer, Blood Orange released Essex Honey, his first proper album in seven years. It's awesome, and it's on our list of the best albums of 2025. Since, then Dev Hynes and his collaborators have played a bunch of festivals, toured with collaborators Lorde and Turnstile, and covered the Smiths and Coldplay. Today, we get a new Blood Orange single with a title very similar to Essex Honey.
Like many of the tracks on Essex Honey, Blood Orange's new single "Essex_Honey.mp3" is a woozy meditation set to a fired-up old-school rave beat. The song sounds like it's trapped in hazy memory, and it's deeply rooted in the history of the Blood Orange project. It prominently samples Sky Ferreira's 2013 single "Everything Is Embarrassing." Dev Hynes co-wrote that song, and it's one of the tracks that first brought attention to the Blood Orange project. Below, check out "Essex_Honey.mp3" and Blood Orange's upcoming tour dates.
TOUR DATES:
05/30 - Warsaw, Poland @ Orange Warsaw
06/02 - Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera A La Ciutat 2026
06/04 - Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound Festival
06/06 - Queens, NY @ Governors Ball Music Festival
06/12 - Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival
07/29 - Chicago, IL @ House of Blues Chicago
07/30 - Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza
08/13 - Oslo, Norway @ Øya Festival
08/14 - Gothenburg, Sweden @ Way Out West
08/15 - København Sv, Denmark @ Syd For Solen
08/18 - Hamburg, Germany @ OFF Days
08/19 - Berlin, Germany @ OFF Days
08/21 - Biddinghuizen, Netherlands @ Lowlands Festival
08/23 - Hasselt, Belgium @ Pukkelpop Festival
08/25 - Zürich, Switzerland @ Komplex AG
08/26 - Wien, Austria @ Arena Vienna
08/29 - London, UK @ Rally
09/03 - Vancouver, BC @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre
09/04 - Troutdale, OR @ McMenamins Edgefield
09/05 - Seattle, WA @ Bumbershoot
09/09 - San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
09/19 - Atlanta, GA @ Shaky Knees
10/04 - Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Music Festival
10/09 - Mayer, AZ @ Arcosanti
10/11 - Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Music Festival
