Reaching out from the Mojave desert to reminisce about home in New Orleans, Alicia goes beyond her doom and grunge leanings with some dreamy, dark, heavy, and soulful jams featuring black women across genres and decades to explore the pleasure and proven benefits sad songs can provide.
WW New Orleans: Alicia Thomas
Irma Thomas - Wish Someone Would Care [Imperial]
The Staple Singers - Uncloudy Day [Stax]
Vicki Anderson - I Want to Be in the Land of Milk and Honey [Brownstone]
Aretha Franklin - Day Dreaming [Atlantic]
Abi Ocia - Running [Cats and Cream]
Nina Simone - Blackbird [Colpix]
Divide and Dissolve - Assimiliation [Dero Arcade]
Moor Mother and Billy Wood - The Blues Remembers Everything the County Forgot [Backwoodz Studioz]
Gloria Ann Taylor - World That's Not Real [Selector Sound]
Oyinda - The Devil's Gonna Keep Me
Alice Coltrane - Wisdom Eye [Warner Brothers]
SZA - Omega [Top Dawg]
Diana Ross and the Supremes - Remove this Doubt [Motown]
Phoenix Martins - Minimal [ALT. Waves]
Minnie Riperton - Close Your Eyes and Remember [GRT]
Rachel Toups - That Way [Peconic]
Sudan Archives - Ballet of the Unhatched Twins [Stones Throw Records]
FKA Twigs - Daybed [Latency]