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Reflection and Reckoning: Blood Orange's Freetown Sound

No Filler Music Podcast
No Filler Music Podcast
Episode • Feb 15, 2021 • 55m
Before you can truly appreciate Freetown Sound and the message it delivers, you need a little bit of context around the state of the country in the summers leading up to its release. But more importantly, how a very specific incident in Dev Hynes career was the tipping point for an artist at his wit's end confronting the realities of being a black man in America. We break it all down in our look at one of 2016's best records, Blood Orange's Freetown Sound.Tracklist:Blood Orange - Do You See My Skin Through The Flames?Blood Orange - With Him + EVPBlood Orange - Hands UpBlood Orange - Squash SquashBlood Orange - Better Than MeTame Impala - Borderline (Blood Orange Remix)This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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