Devonté Hynes review – alt-rocker makes an exhilarating classical debut
Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, Hynes’ new compositions had a gravitas absent from his pop music – and plenty of discordant energy
February 2022
The music essay
Sex stories, purgatory and Adele’s tears: the album skit is back
Keen to re-establish the album in the age of the playlist, artists are peppering their work with voice notes and sketches – to profound and annoying ends
November 2019
The decade in music
Work, work, work: Beyoncé's labour of liberation
Leading a creative revolution whose ripples were seen from Kanye to Donald Glover to Little Simz, Beyoncé consigned the idea of performers ‘sticking to the music’ to history
July 2019
Blood Orange: Angel’s Pulse review – immersive and delicate mixtape
Alexis Petridis's album of the week
Blood Orange: Angel's Pulse review – the stuff cult heroes are made of
April 2019
Coachella day three review: Ariana Grande on fire and Pusha T on an iceberg
Grande closed the weekend with a Bang Bang, Pusha T brought dancing abominable snowmen, and Lizzo was a plus-size tonic
August 2018
Blood Orange: Negro Swan review – a dizzying triumph
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Dev Hynes: ‘Puff Daddy somehow got my number… it was pretty strange’
The east London musician talks about his album Negro Swan – and why he prefers playing football to being on stage
Mac Miller: Swimming review – maturing rapper in search for self-acceptance
The Pittsburgh artist went through a breakup with Ariana Grande and was arrested for a drunken car crash – but his troubles result in a wiser, sadder, better album
February 2017
Pass notes
Things that rhyme with MailChimp: the most confusing ad campaign of 2017 so far
Listen up
Listen to the first track from Blondie's new album, Pollinator
August 2016
Blood Orange: ‘I don’t want people to immediately like my music. That's scary’
The London-born producer builds dense modern pop with roots in hip-hop, R&B and NYC culture. He says he wants people to be intrigued, not infatuated
July 2016
Blood Orange review – soulful and sublime
Blood Orange: Freetown Sound review – ancestry explored in a collage of sounds
June 2016
Alexis Petridis's album of the week
Blood Orange: Freetown Sound review – a pop changeling's pell-mell scrapbook
Jerking from 80s soul to spindly indie, via snatches of street noise and film samples, Dev Hynes’s grand personal statement is stuffed with fascinating ideas but feels unfinished
August 2014
How Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes grew into a producer and songwriter of class
Via a series of collaborations, Hynes has come a long way from his roots in the dance punk trio Test Icicles
June 2014
Why Pharrell, Kanye and Dev Hynes are getting off on synaesthesia
Composer and synaesthete Nick Ryan hopes to shed light on the multisensory condition by representing the experience on stage
February 2014
Blood Orange – review
Devonté Hynes returns to the stage as Blood Orange and his slick, eclectic show is matched by an outpouring of audience affection, writes Betty Clarke
December 2013
Dev Hynes on Solange, Blood Orange and life in New York
Dev Hynes requests for crowdfunding campaign to be shut down
