Just saw that her new album Spirituals is out. I’m starting it now.
When her big hits came out, at the time I wasn’t so impressed by the rest of her work in comparison. But for the past couple of years, her records have been some of my favorite things to listen to.
I was very late too. Probably heard a few singles before, but didn’t properly get into her until 2017. Was sitting at the bar of a local favorite restaurant, a few days after a breakup, and they were playing Master of My Make-Believe. I really connected with it. Played that a lot and didn’t get to her debut until the next year, and 99¢ just earlier this year.
Am I wrong in feeling that there’s no real banger on this? Only listened the once so far, and will certainly give it many more listens yet, but feels a bit different to the other albums.
First listen, a bit meh. Second listen, really digging it. “My Horror”, “High Priestess” and “Fall First” are all classic Santigold in being all totally different from each other, but all great.
Absolutely. Would have loved if she could have toured the new album, and she has loads of bangers in her back catalogue so would have been an ideal festival set (totally respect that the economics didn’t work for her ).