Blood Orange new album Freetown Sound released three days early

Featuring guest appearances from Debbie Harry, Nelly Furtado, and Carly Rae Jepsen

Dev Hynes’s third album under the Blood Orange name, Freetown Sound, has been released three days early onto streaming services.

Scheduled for release on 1 July, Domino has made the Cupid Deluxe follow-up available on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Deezer and Tidal.

The 17 track record, produced and written by Hynes, is named after the capital of Sierra Leone, Freetown, where his father was born. A music video for the track "Augustine" was also released.

Guests on the album include Ava Raiin, Empress Of, Debbie Harry, Bea1991, Starchild, Ian Isiah, Nelly Furtado, Ta-Nehisi C, Kelsey Lu, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Zuri Marley.

Hynes said of the record: "I have just finished making an album about my life, my upbringing, being black in England, being black in America...my movement to this country at the age of 21, the same age that my mother moved from Guyana to London, and my father from Sierra Leone to London,"

The normal version of the album does not contain the three Blood Orange songs released in 2015, “Do You See My Skin Through the Flames?” and “Sandra’s Smile,” while the limited edition vinyl contains a 10” record featuring them.

Next month, Blood Orange play Barclaycard’s British Summer Time festival, supporting the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Jaime XX and Florence and the Machine.