ReviewsIncluded in Paste Magazine's "The 50 Best Albums of 2018" -- "With myriad collaborators from A$AP Rocky and Puff Daddy, to rising talents TeiShi and Ian Isiah, NEGRO SWAN looks unflinchingly at black and queer life -- its traumas, its tensions, its passions.", "Opening track ‘Orlando’ is what Prince would sound like if he came out in 2018. Future soul balladeering with a massive pop sheen.", Included in Spin's "The 51 Best Albums of 2018" -- "No album from this year opened as warmly as NEGRO SWAN, with the aqueous guitar scribbles of 'Orlando' emerging from the soothing ambient noise of a city block.", "Ecstasy grows on melodic R&B tracks like 'Take Your Time,' where hazy flutes spill into Hynes’ airy vocal runs, or single 'Jewelry,' where his layered harmonies halt to a declaration of self-love...", 5 stars out of 5 -- "At times, NEGRO SWAN crosses over from album and into a radio station from a world just outside ours; Dev Hynes has created a fabulous collection of cascading sounds.", "Hynes impeccably orchestrates his jazzy art-funk, resulting in the best sounding music of his solo career. He uses these arrangements in order to tell us about the memories that still haunt him...", 4 stars out of 5 -- "A gorgeously heady, haunted and sexy album that celebrates self-realization and fluidity, stylistic and otherwise, in the midst of darkness, with ongoing narration by Mock and others."
Additional InformationDev Hynes' most touching LP mixes and bounds between bedsit post-punk, desolate dream pop, chillwave-coated quiet storm, and low-profile hip-hop soul.