NPR is streaming Comet, Come to Me, the new album from the multi-talented Meshell Ndegeocello. It’s out next Tuesday, June 3, and Ndegeocello will be celebrating with a special release show at LPR!
 
Check out a couple tracks below and listen to all of Comet, Come to Me over at NPR’s First Listen, where the always-insightful Ann Powers writes:
 
“Comet, Come to Me unfolds in many similar directions, musically and emotionally, while amplifying Ndegeocello’s already expansive artistry. It begins with a jazzed-and-screwed version of Whodini’s “Friends” that updates that foundational hip-hop song to suit the slippery ties of increasingly virtual reality. Many songs here contemplate the stresses unresolved patterns place on human relationships: patterns of neglect in “Good Day Bad,” of self-destructive behavior in “Conviction,” of cruelty in “Folie a Deux.” Elsewhere, Ndegeocello’s spare, poetic storytelling goes beyond the interpersonal as she contemplates religion’s hypocrisy, mental health and the exhausting American dream.”
 
“Friends” and “Conviction” from Comet, Come to Me:
 

 

 
Get tickets for Meshell Ndegeocello’s 6/3 LPR show here.
 
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