Funk Soul

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Trail of Flowers, the latest release from singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sierra Ferrell.

Sierra Ferrell brings a dose of beautifully strange magic to everything she touches. On her new album, she expands her sound while deepening the urgency of her songs, often revealing a wealth of wisdom within her wildly imaginative storytelling.

This week’s PBS Feature Album is The Collective, the second solo album by legendary multi-disciplinary artist Kim Gordon.

Recorded in Los Angeles, The Collective follows Gordon’s 2019 full-length debut No Home Record and continues her collaboration with producer Justin Raisen (Lil Yachty, John Cale, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Charli XCX, Yves Tumor), with additional production from Anthony Paul Lopez. 

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Chorus, the third studio album by Mildlife. 

On Chorus, Mildlife link microcosmic personal meaning with a macro view from on high. Chorus is the sound of singular entities coalescing into a wondrous whole. It’s harmonious togetherness and celebratory symbiosis. And it’s the band’s ultimate statement of their borderline mystical unity, their unified theory of groove.

This week’s PBS Feature Album is The Great Bailout, the ninth studio album by Moor Mother aka Camae Ayewa. 

Called “the poet laureate of the apocalypse,” by Pitchfork, Ayewa’s music contains multitudes of instruments, voices and cacophony that take on themes of Afrofuturism and collective memory with the forebearers of jazz, hip hop and beat poetry in mind.