Premature Evaluation: Blood Orange Essex Honey

Blood Orange should be the last artist to get the TikTok bump — not because Dev Hynes doesn’t deserve it but because the music that he makes under his Blood Orange alter-ego is so heady and immersive that it’s hard to imagine it making sense in 20-second chunks. Blood Orange has hooks, but they’re the kind of hooks that feel like crawling into a warm bath. You want to luxuriate inside those hooks, not to encounter them in barrages of distracting media blips. But the TikTok effect has ...

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