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That confidence is certainly evident: bare-chested in his PR shots, busting out elaborate moves in his live shows, dancing down Manhattan sidewalks in music videos. His reinterpretation of the past could be misconstrued as pastiche, but he possesses the ability to take genres and put his own spin on them. His reclamation of those 80s sounds and philosophies that have shaped black New York stand out in an era when cultural appropriation is a regular talking point. Blood Orange review — soulful and sublime.

Read more. The band released one album and broke up in , and Hynes unexpectedly reinvented himself as a solo indie-folk project, Lightspeed Champion, associated with the Bright Eyes scene over in Omaha, Nebraska. Even in Test Icicles. It took us so long to make an album because we would make different albums with different genres. Enjoy unlimited access to 70 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a day free trial.

By the time of his second Lightspeed Champion album, Hynes had relocated to New York in search of creative freedom. He found the UK music industry, and the neat genre labels favoured by the magazines of the time, stifling. I recall seeing the game that needed to be played, and maybe it's different now but back then it felt like there were clubs that you needed to get memberships to in order to do anything.

Despite the change of scenery, he again began to feel disheartened with the music industry and the idea of fame. He decided to only commit himself to something where he could be per cent himself, uncompromising in his integrity. After a chance meeting with Solange Knowles during a writing session for rapper Theophilus London, Hynes became the main collaborator on her EP True. He found himself part of an emerging group of black creatives, like The Weeknd, Frank Ocean , and Janelle Monae who, thanks to the boundary crumbling power of the internet, claimed indie and alternative influences as much as they drew on genres like funk and soul.

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