Baby Rose brings a fresh perspective on genre music with her latest release, Through and Through.

With Gasms, Smokey Robinson once again proves elegant lyricism and poetic storytelling will always deliver the best listening experience.

Sampha comes back after a respite to deliver a gorgeous and bold piece of work with Lahai.

José James offers a gorgeously reverent tribute to one of the most iconic R&B albums of all time.

With Canon Metis, Mélat gives listeners permission to embrace the ups, downs and exquisite humanity of life and love.

The follow-up to her widely regarded American Dirt, Flores brings The Lives They Left, diving deeper into her earth-brown blues.

Levelle Browning is an artist to watch. With his debut album, My Journey Continues, he plans to bring love back into R&B.

Amber Mark's debut album, Three Dimensions Deep, is an aural journey through human emotion.

Sherren Olivia's official debut album, Oasis, is melodic, earthy R&B that's pleasant to experience.

My first time consciously encountering love was Smokey Robinson's 'I'll Try Something New.'

Voodoo is one of the most vocally complex albums I’ve ever heard. And one night it brought me to tears.

Adeline's Adi Oasis is a piece of funk-soul music out time. An album that transports its listeners to a much funkier time in music.

Despite opening on something more akin to a pantomime of blues-rock, Yazarah's The Ceremony delivers on soul that's from the gut.

Another year. Another 100 Favorite Albums. 2021 was rough. But music is everlasting.

Nao's latest effort, And Then Life Was Beautiful, is a robust, full vocal and aural experience.

Kindred the Family Soul returns with one of the more soul-soothing albums I've listened to in Auntie & Unc.

The best way to describe H.E.R.'s Back Of My Mind is "human." Unapologetically and openly human.

Jon Batiste's Grammy-nominated We Are is a pretty soul album with all the polish but very little of the grit.

When I eventually sat down to really evaluate Silk Sonic's debut album, I wasn't surprised, but I definitely wasn't as cynical.

While not always believable. Cynthia Erivo's debut album Ch. 1 vs. 1 has moments of sheer and utter beauty.