Blood Orange Releases New Song "Essex_Honey.mp3" Featuring Sky Ferreira Sample
Dev Hynes kicks off 2026 with "Essex_Honey.mp3," his first release of the year, which includes a sample of Sky Ferreira.
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Blood Orange Samples Sky Ferreira on New Song
“Essex_Honey.mp3” is Dev Hynes’ first release of 2026 By Hattie Lindert May 29, 2026 Save this story Save this story
Just under a year after sharing his most recent album, Essex Honey , Blood Orange is back with “Essex_Honey.mp3,” his first new song of 2026. The track, which pairs a wistful top synth with a clattering breakbeat, samples Sky Ferreira ’s “Everything Is Embarrassing,” which Blood Orange also produced. Listen to the new song below.
Essex Honey , which dropped in July 2025, was Dev Hynes’ first new album under the moniker since 2018. It featured Lorde, Caroline Polachek, Daniel Caesar, Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates, Mustafa Ian Isiah, Tirzah, Naomi Scott, author Zadie Smith, and more. He brought the record on a tour through the US, Canada, Europe, and the U.K. in fall 2025.
Read Jenn Pelly’s 2022 profile Burning CDs With Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes in the Basement of Madison Square Garden .
_Originally reported by [Pitchfork](https://pitchfork.com/news/blood-orange-samples-sky-ferreira-on-new-song/)._
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