Blood Orange announces debut

Dev Hynes, who is perhaps best known for his work under the Lightspeed Champion guise, is set to release an album under the Blood Orange moniker. The album will be released in Europe on the 8^th of August and will be entitled Coastal Grooves. Blood Orange released a clip for the song ‘Dinner’ not too long ago, as well as releasing the track ‘Sutphin Boulevard’ per stream.

Long forgotten is the old Hollywood studio BFR, which was a combination of disgruntled MGM employees and some people from Universal who thought they could do better than their old employers. BFR had locked up a lot of money in a project called Sutphin Boulevard, which would be about a male actor famous during the silent age but who since the introduction of sound been long out of the Hollywood picture. An unsuccessful female screenwriter then writes a picture with the actor in mind and together they team up for a glorious comeback! That was the stuff Hollywood is made off, boasted the BFR employees. But test screenings showed that the audience was less taken with it, and so the downfall of the BFR studio set in.

A cheeky chap from MGM was in the test screening, heard the project was about to cancel, and asked off the cuff if he perhaps could have it. The man said, Here, take it, we aren’t going to do anything with it anymore anyway. But where the BFR people lacked the vision and the patience, this young man did have it. He changed the old actor into an old actress (who wants to see men in the Arts? We want to see women who can diva it up!) he changed the female screenwriter into a male one (who doesn’t want to see young men on screen?), and instead of Sutphin Boulevard (Where? In Kentucky?) to a Boulevard in L.A. (glamour baby! Plus we can shoot it close to home). Sometimes you need the vision to just tweak, instead of just throw it all out.