‘deep breaths in country fields’
Tariq Al-Sabir, Daniel Caesar, and the Durutti Column’s Vini Reilly also contribute to Dev Hynes’ first song under the moniker in three years
Blood Orange has returned with a new song titled “The Field,” Dev Hynes’ first track under the moniker in over three years.
“A song about deep breaths in country fields & the ones we miss when we close our eyes,” Hynes previously said of “The Field,” which also features contributions from composer Tariq Al-Sabir, singers Caroline Polachek and Daniel Caesar, and the Durutti Column’s Vini Reilly; the latter adds his trademark guitar work in the now-rare appearance, as a stroke in the early 2010s has slowed the once-prolific Reilly’s output to a near-stop.
Hynes — who contributed “Vocals, Piano, Cello, Synths, Drum Programming” to his own track, as well as produced and mixed it — also directed the accompanying visual, which provides a bucolic look at “The Field.”
It’s been seven years since Blood Orange released its last album Negro Swan in 2018 — and three years since 2022’s Four Songs EP — but Hynes has remained active over recent years, scoring films like 2022’s Master Gardener and playing bass on Harry Styles’ “Watermelon Sugar” at the Grammys; Blood Orange also served as Styles’ opening act during the singer’s Madison Square Garden residency.
More recently, Hynes produced tracks for Lorde’s upcoming album Virgin and contributed vocals on Turnstile’s “Seein’ Stars.”
