In the video for Blood Orange‘s “Sutphin Boulevard,” director Alan Del Rio Ortiz captures the incandescent group dynamic of a colony of Brooklyn punks and queens, as Blood Orange (Devonté Hynes) writhes on a microphone stand like the emerging prince of post-apocalypto-pop that he probably is. Something in the super-8 production distills the spare and contemplative essence of being in the outer boroughs at night, while making it seem chic with its grainy transmission of some secret enclave of voguing specters. Known alternately as Lightspeed Champion, Hynes has penned songs for everyone from Florence and the Machine to the Chemical Brothers. As Blood Orange, Hynes is becoming one of Brooklyn’s most vital new acts of 2011, having released the single “Dinner” on Terrible Records and doing behind-the-scenes work with Theophilus London and Solange Knowles on their respective projects. Check out the video below for “Sutphin Boulevard” and click on the single cover to pick it up on iTunes.