Blood Orange Negro Swan 2LP tip-on gatefold LP jacket with printed inner sleeves All The Quiet (Part I)

All The Quiet (Part I) is a Records & LPs from Joe Armon-Jones

Kenny’s score accompanies all the pretty things

The band initially came together as a lean two-piece in 2010

Maguire's retelling was a revisionist interpretation in which the Wicked Witch turned out to be a misunderstood character with lots of justifications for turning "bad" (one of them being prejudiced reactions to her green skin color)

Released: 8/24/18

Blood Orange Negro Swan 2LP tip-on gatefold LP jacket with printed inner sleeves All The Quiet (Part I)The fourth Blood Orange album begins with a temperate rolling groove suited perfectly for Dev Hynes' gentle falsetto. Just as the song starts to resemble something akin to Stevie Wonder's "Power Flower" as an imagined Smokey Robinson collaboration, its refrain of "First kiss was the floor," delivered with deceptively wistful style, tugs the attentive listener into Hynes' marginalized and antagonized existence as a black male with characteristics