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10.0
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10.0 |
The Guardian
Gorgeous melodies ground Dev Hynes’s questing fifth album, via dancefloor rhythms, indie pop and languorous funk – and cameos from Lorde and Zadie Smith
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10.0
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10.0 |
The Arts Desk
It takes in all the avant-garde and otherwise out-there influences Hynes has encountered along his meandering way
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9.0
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9.0 |
All Music
A remarkable album with more gateways than a knowing mixtape, Essex Honey shows that Hynes is as ingenious as a would-be DJ, A&R, and talent connector as he is as a songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and singer
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9.0
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9.0 |
musicOMH
Dev Hynes translates themes of loss and grief into a compelling and ultimately uplifting musical whole
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8.1
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8.1 |
Pitchfork
Dev Hynes’ elegant new album, his first in six years, inhabits memories of an English childhood filled with joy, pain, and music
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8.0
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8.0 |
Dork
‘Essex Honey’ is delicately constructed – immediately, there is a whirlwind of influences at work, but it never feels like a tug of war between them
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8.0
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8.0 |
Rolling Stone
Enigmatic U.K. musician Dev Hynes delivers a quietly intoxicating LP
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8.0
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NME
Dev Hynes’ sombre return explores the grief of hometown returns through his private all-star orchestra of pop music’s finest
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8.0
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8.0 |
Clash
Hynes doesn’t offer immediate catharsis or easy answers. Instead, he provides something equally valuable: an honest documentation of processing grief with such sophistication that his individual journey becomes widely resonant
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7.9
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7.9 |
Paste Magazine
Dev Hynes translates nebulous abstraction without veering into didacticism or appearing overwrought. In his hands, grief becomes amorphous, resisting cliche and expectations—much like the artist himself
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7.6
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7.6 |
Northern Transmissions
Hynes’ melodies and arranging experiments make for a replayable, effusive record whose insight comes in waves and poetry arrives in short, meaningful doses
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7.0
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7.0 |
Slant Magazine
The album explores loss and loneliness, but Dev Hynes finds ways to break through the fog
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7.0
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7.0 |
The Quietus
Essex Honey isn’t about England, it’s about the mourning Hynes experienced there. If there’s anything more complicated than country, it’s that
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