Meshell Ndegeocello Ventriloquism *

"Ndegeocello's renditions are powered by the low register of her voice, and the knowledge and experience she brings to her renditions, like the pathos she wrings out of 'Private Dancer.'"
Included in Spin's "The 51 Best Albums of 2018" -- "[A]n album full of radical and nonlinear alterations of older songs; she moves through R&B radio staples with minimum waste and maximum joy, chipping away at their more obvious parts and sharpening whatever fragments are left over."
Billboard - "Ndegeocello crawls into the songs' DNA and spits the source code back out with spellbinding, deeply felt new spins that feel nothing like the famous versions but still draw from and expand upon your love for them in ways you didn't think still possible."