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.…