Blood Orange folds Sky Ferreira nostalgia into a new late-night transmission

Blood Orange has a gift for making nostalgia sound like it is happening right now. Essex_Honey.mp3, his first new release of 2026, samples Sky Ferreira’s Everything Is Embarrassing, a song Dev Hynes himself helped shape more than a decade ago. That makes the track feel less like a simple sample flip and more like a conversation with his own musical past. The beat rattles forward with a light breakbeat pulse, while the synths carry that familiar Blood Orange feeling: soft, bruised, stylish and slightly out of reach.

It is not a huge comeback fireworks moment. It is better than that. It feels like a small door opening back into the Dev Hynes universe, where pop history, underground cool and private sadness keep meeting under neon lights after midnight.