Coastal Grooves

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Coastal Grooves
Blood Orange Coastal Grooves album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Blood Orange
Released30 August 2011 (2011-08-30)
Genre
Label Domino
Producer Ariel Rechtshaid
Blood Orange chronology
Coastal Grooves
(2011)		 Cupid Deluxe
(2013)

Coastal Grooves is the debut studio album by Blood Orange. [1] It was released on 30 August 2011 under Domino Recording Company. The album features no guest appearances and was produced by Ariel Rechtshaid in Los Angeles. [2] Domino Recording Company described the album as highlighting the glamour and drama of New York City in the 1980s. [2]

Contents

Music

The album incorporates stylistic elements of indie rock, baroque pop, folk, contemporary R&B, jazz, soul, and electronic music. By fusing many of these elements together, Blood Orange captures sounds of grooviness, reverbed guitar lines, and piano synths to create music that is described as being a part of a post-punk atmosphere. [3] [1] In a November 2013 article Complex magazine listed the album's cover as one of the "50 Best Pop Album Covers of the Past Five Years", also stating that Hynes was "inspired by transgender icons, like Octavia St. Laurent while he was wrapping production on the LP". In the music video for "I'm Sorry We Lied", produced by Domino Recording Company and directed by Abteen Bagheri in 2012, the story follows Blood Orange and a woman's night life adventure in New York City. Aside from "I'm Sorry We Lied", many works on the album are also said to be inspired by the after-hours environment of NYC. [3] In 2010, Blood Orange underwent throat surgery and as a result, the album is sung mainly in falsetto. [4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.0/10 [5]
Metacritic 72/100 [6]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Drowned in Sound 9/10 [8]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Loud and Quiet 7/10 [10]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Pitchfork 5.9/10 [12]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [13]
Tiny Mix Tapes Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [14]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [15]
Under the Radar 5/10 [16]

The album has a rating of 72/100 on Metacritic based on 18 reviews, indicating generally favourable reviews. [17] [18] A reviewer for Pitchfork wrote that Coastal Grooves omits catchy choruses and melodies in favour of stark guitar lines and seductive mumbling but ultimately gave the album a rating of a 5.9/10. [1]

Commercial performance

The track "Champagne Coast" went viral on social media platform TikTok during July of 2024. The song also entered the Hot Alternative Songs chart at number 15, with almost 6 million streams.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Devonté Hynes.

Coastal Grooves track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Forget It"3:56
2."Sutphin Boulevard"3:33
3."I'm Sorry We Lied"4:00
4."Can We Go Inside Now?"3:51
5."S'cooled"3:10
6."Complete Failure"3:35
7."Instantly Blank (The Goodness)"2:53
8."The Complete Knock"5:03
9."Are You Sure You're Really Busy?"4:21
10."Champagne Coast"4:52
11."Said No" (iTunes bonus track)4:54

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Blood Orange: Coastal Grooves Album Review | Pitchfork". pitchfork.com. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Coastal Grooves". Domino USA. Archived from the original on 5 August 2011. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Album Review: Blood Orange – Coastal Grooves". Consequence of Sound. 18 August 2011. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  4. ↑ "Blood Orange Quiet Riot". exclaim.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "Coastal Grooves by Blood Orange reviews". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved 13 September 2025.
  6. ↑ "Coastal Grooves Reviews". Metacritic . Retrieved 28 December 2013.
  7. ↑ AllMusic review
  8. ↑ Francis, Bronya Louise (3 August 2011). "Album Review: Blood Orange – Coastal Grooves". Drowned in Sound . Retrieved 13 September 2025.
  9. ↑ MacInnes, Paul (4 August 2011). "Blood Orange: Coastal Grooves - review". The Guardian . Retrieved 13 September 2025.
  10. ↑ Rappaport, Polly. "Blood Orange: Coastal Grooves". Loud and Quiet . Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
  11. ↑ Schiller, Rebecca (8 August 2011). "Album Review: Blood Orange – 'Coastal Grooves'". NME . Retrieved 13 September 2025.
  12. ↑ "Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork .
  13. ↑ Buckle, Chris (25 July 2011). "Blood Orange – Coastal Grooves". The Skinny . Retrieved 13 September 2025.
  14. ↑ Savage, Rowan. "Blood Orange – Coastal Grooves | Music Review". Tiny Mix Tapes . Retrieved 13 September 2025.
  15. ↑ Martin, Piers (September 2011). "Blood Orange – Coastal Grooves". Uncut . p. 81.
  16. ↑ McGuane, Kenny S. (30 August 2011). "Blood Orange – 'Coastal Grooves'". Under the Radar . Retrieved 12 September 2025.
  17. ↑ Coastal Grooves by Blood Orange , retrieved 5 December 2017
  18. ↑ "Dev Hynes Wants To Know What It Feels Like To Be Free". NPR.org. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
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