Blood Orange Negro Swan 2025-10-03 Keith Crouch

Keith Crouch

King of the Twist B12

The music adds a context of grandeur to Coyne's lyrics of Zen and the cosmic joke

jazz and Hiphop

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Blood Orange Negro Swan 2025-10-03 Keith CrouchThe fourth Blood Orange album begins with a temperate rolling groove suited perfectly for Dev Hynes' gentle falsetto. Just as the song starts to resemble something akin to Stevie Wonder's "Power Flower" as an imagined Smokey Robinson collaboration, its refrain of "First kiss was the floor," delivered with deceptively wistful style, tugs the attentive listener into Hynes' marginalized and antagonized existence as a black male with characteristics