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Cecile McLorin Salvant: Oh Snap

Read "Oh Snap" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
October 27, 2025

Ogni nuovo disco di Cécile McLorin Salvant è un evento di rilievo ma da qualche anno si aggiungono stimolanti sorprese. Dagli ultimi due album --Ghost Song del 2022 e Mélusine del 2023--la cantante ha sospeso la relazione con il songbook statunitense e il repertorio legato al blues e alle radici, per presentare contenuti e soluzioni inaspettate con vari brani originali. Questo Oh Snap incrementa le nuove scelte. Tutti i temi sono personali, in una riflessione che riallaccia il ...

Album Review

Cecile McLorin Salvant: Oh Snap

by Frank Housh
September 28, 2025

It feels like Cecile McLorin Salvant is just showing off. The 2020 MacArthur Genius Grant Award Winner follows up Ghost Song (Nonesuch, 2022) and Mélusine (Nonesuch, 2023) with Oh Snap, a post-genre effort with deeply personal lyrics that sound like they were lifted from the diaries of a rediscovered poet. McLorin recorded Oh Snap alone, learning GarageBand and AutoTune as she went. She said, “I felt I had lost a connection to music because it was something that ...