Blood Orange‘s excellent new album Freetown Sound is now available at The Record Exchange on CD and vinyl!

Freetown Sound is the third full-length album from Dev Hynes (Blood Orange). Written and produced by Hynes, Freetown Sound is a tour de force, a pastiche of Hynes’ past, present, and future that melds his influences with his own established musical voice. For well over a decade, Dev has proven himself a virtuoso of versatility, experimenting with almost every conceivable musical genre and working with a wide variety of artists as a writer and producer. On his solo work he has created a singular style of urgent, delicate pop music by carefully stitching a sound palette that gently recalls elastic funk, slinky R&B and pure pop. Thematically, the album is profoundly personal and unapologetically political, touching on issues of race, religion, sex and sexism over 17 shimmering songs.

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Here’s a quick look at the bright and shiny new releases this week at The Record Exchange:

CD

John Paul White – Beulah

Blood Orange – Freetown Sound

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – Miss Sharon Jones! Soundtrack

Crystal Castles – Amnesty (I)

Jerry Garcia – Garcialive Vol. 7: November 8, 1976, Sophie’s, Palo Alto

Amos Lee – Spirit

Xiu Xiu – Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of Twin Peaks

Tory Lanez – I Told You

Chris Staples – The Golden Age

Lindsey Stirling – Brave Enough

Skeletonwitch – Apothic Gloom

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis – Hell or High Water Soundtrack

Dolly Parton – Pure and Simple

Dale Watson – Live at the Big T Roadhouse

Lydia Loveless – Real

Scott Walker – The Childhood of a Leader Soundtrack

Magic Music – Magic Music

Bent Life – Never Asked for Heaven

Carl Broemel – 4th of July

The Minus 5 – Of Monkees and Men

Lisa Hannigan – At Swim

Sabaton – The Last Stand (deluxe edition available)

Myrkur – Mausoleum

Gallant – Ology

Roosevelt – Roosevelt

Ryley Walker – Golden Sings That Have Been Sung

Ages and Ages – Something to Ruin

Gonjasufi – Callus

Twiztid – The Green Book

Trapt – DNA

Highasakite – Camp Echo

AJJ – The Bible 2

Tall Heights – Neptune

Drake White – Spark

Factory Floor – 25 25

Tobacco – Sweatbox Dynasty

Faith No More – We Care A Lot

Soilwork – Death Resonance

The Color Morale – Desolate Divine

Bayside – Vacancy

Datach’i – System

Dumb Numbers – II

Kiefer Sutherland – Down in a Hole

The Stray Birds – Magic Fire

Anathema – Distant Satellites

Casey Donahew – All Night Party

David Brent – Life on the Road

Blood Incantation – Starspawn

Daniel Lioneye – Vol. III

Watsky – X Infinity

VINYL

Blood Orange – Freetown Sound

Xiu Xiu – Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of Twin Peaks

Sabaton – The Last Stand

Skeletonwitch – Apothic Gloom (limited edition marbled vinyl version available)

Jesu/Sun Kil Moon – Jesu/Sun Kil Moon

John Paul White – Beulah

Zomby and Burial – Sweetz

Mark Pritchard – Beautiful People

William Basinski – 92982

Ages and Ages – Something to Ruin

AJJ – The Bible 2

Lisa Hannigan – At Swim

Carl Broemel – 4th of July

Lydia Loveless – Real

The New Barbarians – Wanted Dead or Alive

Ryley Walker – Golden Sings That Have Been Sung

The Brotherhood of Lizards – Lizardland

Gonjasufi – Callus

Roosevelt – Roosevelt

Holy Ghost! – Crime Cutz

Factory Floor – 25 25

Bill Jerpe – Bill Jerpe

Various Artists – Electri_City 2 + Electri_City

Josh White – Josh at Midnight

R0cky Votolato – Makers 10th Anniversary Edition

Tobacco – Sweatbox Dynasty

Twiztid – The Green Book

Myrkur – Mausoleum

Abbath – Abbath

V Marielle Jakobsons – Star Cove

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