12 Little Spells (Deluxe Edition)Esperanza Spalding · 2018

rollingstone

8.0

“The genre-defying artist's idiosyncratic vision recalls Joni Mitchell and Prince”

pastemagazine

7.1

“It would be easy to compare Esperanza Spalding to Bjork, or Joni Mitchell, or Kate Bush, but that implies that there can Only Be One. Instead, Spalding’s 12 Little Spells joins a long line of her goddess foremothers in their innovation. Each song is dedicated to a corresponding body part, which is weird but also delightful. On “Until The Next Full,” she sings, “Our eyeballs are hollow/but present”