Blood Orange Negro Swan 05/09/2017 with the final two cuts

with the final two cuts on this collection (from 1959's SOMETHING ELSE)

" and Steve Howe's electric guitars are not far behind

following his acclaimed hit record WE ARE

only beginning to cause real internal damage once they get into your gut

Shallah Raekwon

Blood Orange Negro Swan 05/09/2017 with the final two cutsThe fourth Blood Orange album begins with a temperate rolling groove suited perfectly for Dev Hynes' gentle falsetto. Just as the song starts to resemble something akin to Stevie Wonder's "Power Flower" as an imagined Smokey Robinson collaboration, its refrain of "First kiss was the floor," delivered with deceptively wistful style, tugs the attentive listener into Hynes' marginalized and antagonized existence as a black male with characteristics