For several months when my brother was a little boy, he'd fall asleep every night while watching an '80s-era cartoon called The Snowman. It was about a little boy who goes to sleep and dreams about frollicking around with an anthropomorphic snowman in the wilderness. There's no dialogue and the only sounds come from lush (yet kind of eerie) instrumental arrangements -- there's lots of twinkling piano keys, delicate flutes and sweeping strings. Anyway. On a similarly snowy day, Blood Orange (aka Dev Hynes) has released a brand new track, "Delancey," that evokes many of the same vibes if not quite the same style: there's a stillness to his airy vocals and the beautifully-arranged cello section that's perfect for this damn dreary day. As Stereogum points out, the track debuted on Hynes' site where he said that he wrote, recorded and produced it just three days ago. No word whether this is part of a larger project but fingers crossed there's more to come.
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