Blood Orange Shares “The Field,” Featuring The Durutti Column, Caroline Polachek, Tariq Al-Sabir and Daniel Caesar
Blood Orange, photo by Vinca Peterson
Blood Orange has returned today with “The Field,” a captivating new single packed with features that arrives as Dev Hynes’ first release under the moniker in three years. While he’s kept busy with contributions and collaborations since, including scoring work for the upcoming Broadway production Job and Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener and appearances on new records from Lorde and Turnstile, “The Field” is his first release since 2022’s Four Songs EP. Depending on how you count, his last full-length album was 2018’s Negro Swan or its 2019 mixtape epilogue Angel’s Pulse.
“The Field” is a flighty mix of electro-soul, dream-pop and cozy breakbeats that moves in and out of focus with swells of emotion. Over a prominent sample of Vini Reilly’s guitar from The Durutti Column’s “Sing to Me,” Hynes stacks vocals from Tariq Al-Sabir, Daniel Caesar, Eva Tolken and Caroline Polachek, who covers the hook from that 1998 track. Hynes adds his own vocals, piano, drum programming and cello–which gently winds around another cello from CTM–and produced and mixed the song, which he says is “about deep breaths in country fields & the ones we miss when we close our eyes.”
“The Field” is available on all streaming platforms now. Watch the artist and Naomi Scott spend a heartwarming day out in Essex in the Hynes-directed music video below, and find information on Blood Orange’s upcoming performances at bloodorange.net.
