Esperanza SpaldingBest Esperanza Spalding Albums Ranked
7.7
Avg Score
11
Opinions
7
Albums
5
Reviewers
Summary from 11 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Esperanza Spalding's catalog across 7 albums from 11 opinions, with an overall average of 7.7/10. The top-rated Esperanza Spalding album is Esperanza (2008) with a 9.1/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Emily's D+Evolution and 12 Little Spells (Deluxe Edition). The discography on Wavelength spans 2008 to 2021. Earth to Heaven ranks as the highest-rated Esperanza Spalding song on Wavelength with a 8.4/10 average.
Emily's D+Evolution
“Emily’s D+Evolution marks a radical shift in the style of upright bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding. The Grammy Award-winning artist reemerges from a two-year hiatus with a rock/funk hybrid that brings Prince and Janelle Monae to mind.”
12 Little Spells (Deluxe Edition)
“The genre-defying artist's idiosyncratic vision recalls Joni Mitchell and Prince”
Emily's D+Evolution
“A jazz prodigy’s prog-rock opera about love and identity”
SONGWRIGHTS APOTHECARY LAB
“Esperanza Spalding’s eighth album is a strangely romantic, sometimes didactic effort to mold the often private experience of listening and feeling the healing power of music.”
12 Little Spells (Deluxe Edition)
“It would be easy to compare Esperanza Spalding to Bjork, or Joni Mitchell, or Kate Bush, but that implies that there can Only Be One. Instead, Spalding’s 12 Little Spells joins a long line of her goddess foremothers in their innovation. Each song is dedicated to a corresponding body part, which is weird but also delightful. On “Until The Next Full,” she sings, “Our eyeballs are hollow/but present”
Chamber Music Society
“Upright-bass prodigy Esperanza Spalding was barely out of her teens when she dropped her first CD, Junjo, a stunningly sophisticated yet playful set of acoustic trio jazz: rubbery bass, piano, drums and sexy Latin melodies harking back to the Seventies Brazilian jazz of Flora Purim. For her second disc, 2008’s Esperanza, she added hints of […]”
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