Blood OrangeBest Blood Orange Albums Ranked
7.9
Avg Score
40
Opinions
11
Albums
15
Reviewers
Summary from 40 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Blood Orange's catalog across 11 albums from 40 opinions, with an overall average of 7.9/10. The top-rated Blood Orange album is Negro Swan (2018) with a 8.7/10 average from 10 ratings, followed by Freetown Sound and Essex Honey. The discography on Wavelength spans 2011 to 2025. Uncle ACE ranks as the highest-rated Blood Orange song on Wavelength with a 9.5/10 average.
Negro Swan
“Opening to the ambient sounds of New York traffic, ‘Negro Swan’ is another fantastic chapter in the career of music polymath Dev Hynes. In the two years since ‘Freetown Sound’, his last album as Blood Orange, the Ilford-born songwriter / producer / director / player of multiple instruments has travelled the world, hopping from – as he put it in a recent interview – “hotel room or Airbnb”, trying ”
Negro Swan
“Negro Swan is the most introspective, important Blood Orange record yet”
Negro Swan
“Dev Hynes released his last Blood Orange album, ‘Freetown Sound’, just weeks after a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando. Freetown was his father’s birthplace in Sierra Leone; as a collection it disentangled the rhizomes of black culture in a world more attuned with white soul-bearing. Cameos from queer icons were dealt an even more somber context – a ubiquitous melancholy was tinged with ”
Negro Swan
““You’re doing the most.” If you’re a queer person of color, you’ve probably heard the phrase thrown at you like a muzzle. It asks you to shrink, to silence the very traits you’ve built to survive in a world that doesn’t always love you. But “doing the most,” being “extra,” or acting “too much,” shouldn’t have to be a fault. There can be strength in that excess. Devonté “Dev” Hynes of Blood Orange ”
Freetown Sound
“Dev Hynes’ third album as Blood Orange is a searing and soothing personal document, striking the same resonant chords as Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly or D’Angelo’s Black Messiah.”
Cupid Deluxe
“On his second collection of melancholic 80s-inspired pop odes, the 27-year-old singer/songwriter/producer Devonté Hynes, aka Blood Orange, channels vagabond emotions into something universal and inviting. His Cupid Deluxe is an album that tenderly details heartbreak through the language of longing.”
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