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Devont\u00e9 Hynes<\/a>\u2019 return as Blood Orange<\/a> follows a period of relative quiet (his last studio album, Negro Swan<\/em><\/a>, came out in 2019) in which his status has nonetheless ballooned. As well as having his old classic \u201cUncle Ace\u201d synced in a memorable Challengers<\/em><\/a> scene, Hynes has essayed further into classical music, whose form and texture color the eclectic borders of new album Essex Honey<\/em><\/a>. Joining him for the indie-pop odyssey is an armada of guests: Lorde, Caroline Polachek, Daniel Caesar, Mustafa, Turnstile\u2019s Brendan Yates, Ian Isiah, Tirzah, Amandla Stenberg, and Zadie Smith, among others.<\/p>\n Listen on Apple Music<\/a> \u201cI thought I was getting better, but I\u2019m back to where I started,\u201d the Beths<\/a> singer Elizabeth Stoke admits when opening the band\u2019s first album in three years. After feeling frustrated by songwriting stall-outs and the nonlinear trajectory of life\u2019s highs and lows, the Beths learned that creativity can\u2019t be lost; you just need to find alternate pathways to it sometimes\u2014hence the album\u2019s title, Straight Line Was a Lie<\/em><\/a>. From the ironic thrills of \u201cNo Joy<\/a>\u201d to the confessional \u201cMother, Pray for Me,\u201d the New Zealand indie-rockers find their groove again after the surreal feeling of breaking out with 2022\u2019s Expert in a Dying Field<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pitchfork.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Devont\u00e9 Hynes\u2019 return as Blood Orange follows a period of relative quiet (his last studio album, Negro Swan, came out in 2019) in which his status has nonetheless ballooned. As well as having his old classic \u201cUncle Ace\u201d synced in a memorable Challengers scene, Hynes has essayed further into classical music, whose form and texture […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1988151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[358477],"class_list":["post-1988150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-out-this-week"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9-New-Albums-You-Should-Listen-to-Now-Sabrina-Carpenter.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1988151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Buy at Rough Trade<\/a><\/p>\nThe Beths: Straight Line Was a Lie<\/em> [Anti-]<\/h2>\n