2025's best songs capture mid-'20s unpredictability through grief, future anxieties, inventive remixes, and genre-melding production revealing artists' evolving influences.
Dev Hynes returned as Blood Orange with Essex Honey, collaborating with Lorde, Caroline Polachek, Mustafa, and others to create reflective, expansive music.
Dev Hynes' Essex Honey marks a pastoral, orchestral, age-appropriate evolution from urban Blood Orange songs, grounded in decades of DIY, genre-spanning music-making.
