Blood Orange Sandra's Smile Lyric Sheet
It's truly a great day in the morning thanks to a new surprise offering from Blood Orange. The progressive and worldly dance-funk act founded and fronted by Dev Hynes released a new surprise single, "Sandra's Smile," late Monday night, making good on a promise posted to Twitter over the weekend that new material was, in fact, arriving on schedule.
The track itself is gorgeous piece of work, built upon a hairy drum pattern and faraway meandering saxophone lines. Hynes seems to have no qualms with contorting, amending and reducing the Blood Orange sound whenever it suits him best, and one might get the impression from the first few bars that "Sandra's Smile" implies a new minimalist direction for the group. However: bass. As the track's roving low-end finally shows itself and tenor sax sections collide to form chords, the song unfurls as something vast and full of life. Those might be "post-trap" hi-hats rattling amidst tiny high-pitched bells, but descriptions don't really matter so much. There's no need to overanalyze; listen, submit, repeat.
Stream "Sandra's Smile" below via Spotify, and be on the lookout--we may finally be in the midst of a new full-length release cycle from Hynes and co. And if that's the case, so far so good.
