Lorde, Caroline Polachek, and Turnstile’s Brendan Yates feature on Blood Orange's first album in six years, Essex Honey

Written, produced, and recorded by Hynes, Essex Honey is a soundtrack created from a dreamscape of his journey working through grief. It is also an album about growing up in Essex and the way music has inspired, healed, and interwoven itself through Hynes’ life.

Essex Honey comes with a list of collaborators, some who have created with Hynes multiple times, and others who are new to his world. These include Lorde, Caroline Polachek, Daniel Caesar, Mustafa, Turnstile’s Brendan Yates, Tariq Al-Sabir, author Zadie Smith - singing on an album for the first time - Ian Isiah, Tirzah, Eva Tolkin, The Durutti Column, Wet’s Kelly Zutrau, actors Naomi Scott and Amandala Stenberg, and Liam Benzvi.

Blood Orange has spent the last three years selling out shows internationally performing his own classical compositions in London, Sydney, Toronto, and more, while also scoring Luca Guadagnino’s HBO show We Are Who We Are, Rebecca Hall’s Passing, Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener and shows for acclaimed fashion house Marni twice a season. This year, he produced songs on the forthcoming Lorde album, Virgin, appeared on the new Turnstile album, Never Enough, and will open select shows for both artists, later this year.

Essex Honey follows 2022's Four Songs EP, 2019's Angel's Pulse mixtape and album of classical compositions Fields, as well as Negro Swan (2018), and Freetown Sound (2016), Cupid Deluxe (2013), and Coastal Grooves (2011).