“Santigold’s latest album is a lockdown project created in an attempt to return to her normal self after the pandemic. Although it’s been 14 years since her genre-bending, self-titled debut was met with praise and awe, time hasn’t affected the singer-songwriter’s ability to create rich, textured pop that reverberates beyond the dancefloor. Spirituals is short, only 10 songs, but it’s a winding jou”
“fearless sonic pioneer leads the pack once again”
“On her first album in six years, Santigold reimagines the type of music that can comfort people in times of grief and stagnation.”
“Most pop music revolves around the examination of the self: Songwriters build soundscapes to score the course of our relationships, the moments where we reckon with our emotions and our impressions of the world around us, bearing it all in hopes that we’ll see our reflection in the mirror they hold up to us. Most write to examine the artist as a human being, lowering themselves to our level in ter”
“Acclaimed art radical Santigold has been on a musical hiatus for four years, and now returns modestly with her enigmatic fourth full-length, Spirituals. In multiple aspects, this is an album which feels fantastical, though its subject matter is steeped in very real-world struggles, most notably the global pandemic that forced the artist into an isolated homebody life caring for her three children,”
