SANTIGOLD Vinyl & CDs

Review: Santigold's first album in six years comes at a prescient time, having been allowed ample moment to gestate following significant developments in Western race relations (BLM, George Floyd, et al.). The new LP 'Spirituals' is named after the African-American folk tradition of the same name, by which enslaved individuals would sing songs of bondage and entrapment ('spirituals') as a means to transcend their plight. Santigold, now in the 'queen phase' of her career, subverts this trope, deploying pop sensibilities with otherworldly vocal processing to convey the her own modern anguish.