Blood Orange - Coastal Grooves (2011) [FLAC] politux

After releasing Life Is Sweet! Nice to Meet You as Lightspeed Champion in 2010, a throat operation forced Devonte Hynes to change his singing style to a falsetto. Now, as Blood Orange, not only does he have a smoother way with vocal lines, he backpedals from Bright Eyes emo and settles into a weird, poppy blend of chillwave, RnB, and 80s new wave. The new persona and synthesized backbeats seem to better coincide with his personality, and Coastal Grooves is the first outing where Hynes sounds completely at home with being unusual. The accompanying black-and-white stills in the albums artwork tell of the forlorn stripper story that he is trying to convey, and he captures the mood perfectly, in an album that is fashionably slick, altogether tragic, and deceptively beautiful.

Released: Aug 8, 2011
Genre: Rock
Style: Indie Electronic
Quality: Lossless
Codec: FLAC

Tracks:

1. Forget It
2. Sutphin Boulevard
3. Im Sorry We Lied
4. Can We Go Inside Now
5. Scooled
6. Complete Failure
7. Instantly Blank (The Goodness)
8. The Complete Knock
9. Are You Sure Youre Really Busy
10. Champagne Coast