Ventriloquism
Album • Mar 16 / 2018 • 11 songs, 53m 35s
Psychedelic Soul
Art Pop
Neo-Soul
Noteable
Highly Rated
7.8
/ 10
Tackling a range of R&B radio hits from the 1980s and 1990s, Meshell Ndegeocello treats the practice of covering another’s songs as an act of intimacy and empathy.
At the heart of Creep Show’s singular aesthetic is the contrast between John Grant’s upholstered croon and Stephen Mallinder’s more fragmentary vocals
Meshell Ndegeocello’s Ventriloquism turns commonly held conceptions of canon on their head.
8
/ 10
From this listener's perspective, the ideal cover album balances out three types of songs.