Negro Swan is the fourth album producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and vocalist Devonte Hynes has released as Blood Orange. Raised in England, Hynes started out as a teenager in the UK punk band Test Icicles. Later in his career he put out two albums as Lightspeed Champion. Hynes explains the latest Blood Orange recored as "an honest look at the corners of black existence...a reach back into childhood and modern traumas, and the things we do to get through it all. The underlying thread through each piece on the album is the idea of HOPE, and the lights we can try to turn on within ourselves with a hopefully positive outcome of helping others out of their darkness."
Here are the Top 30 new albums played on Studio One Tracks for the week ending Sept. 23, 2018:
1 Rubblebucket- Sun Machine
2 Paul McCartney- Egypt Station
3 Blood Orange- Negro Swan
4 Death Cab For Cutie- Thank You For Today
5 Iron & Wine- Weed Garden (EP)
6 Low- Double Negative
7 Mitski- Be The Cowboy
8 Wild Nothing- Indigo
9 Spiritualized- And Nothing Hurt
10 We Were Promised Jetpacks- The More I Sleep The Less I Dream
11 Salim Nourallah- Somewhere South Of Sane
12 DeVotchKa- This Night Falls Forever
13 Mass Gothic- I've Tortured You Long Enough
14 The Smithereens- Covers
15 Cowboy Junkies- All That Reckoning
16 Kevin Gordon- Tilt And Shine
17 Slothrust- The Pact
18 Gold Star- Uppers And Downers
19 Future Generations- Landscape
20 Carl Broemel- Wished Out
21 Oh Sees- Smote Reverser
22 White Denim- Performance
23 Dirty Projectors- Lamp Lit Prose
24 Lucero- Among The Ghosts
25 The Beths- Future Me Hates Me
26 Eric Bachmann- No Recover
27 Murder By Death- The Other Shore
28 Let's Eat Grandma- I'm All Ears
29 Neko Case- Hell-On
30 Shemekia Copeland- America's Child
