This past weekend Devonté Hynes (better known as Blood Orange) put on an incredible performance at this year's Roots Picnic in Philadelphia (if you missed out don't worry, we've got you covered with a recap), ahead of his forthcoming third album, Freetown Sound.

Now, in a joint interview with Kindness,which aired today on RBMA Radiothe Cupid Deluxe artist discusses his thoughts on Freetown, and the inspiration behind it.

I started questioning a lot of things and I basically got to the conclusion that, if someone is a writer they write maybe for themselves at home, as a release, and maybe they write for an article, an interview, or maybe they write for something else more specific. I started to look at myself maybe like that and realizing it’s okay to make music that isn’t for people to listen to, if it’s a sense of therapy, myself.

"I have just finished making an album about my life, my upbringing, being black in England, being black in America," Hynes wrote in a press release for Freetown. "...my movement to this country at the age of 21, the same age that my mother moved from Guyana to London, and my father from Sierra Leone to London. Freetown Sound, the name of my album, is taken from Freetown where my father was born."