Jill Scott’s New Album Gives Us the ‘Warm Embrace’ We Need Right Now

Jill Scott’s new album gives us the ‘warm embrace’ we need right now

The group chat discusses the musician’s first full-length album in over a decade.

To Whom This May Concern: Jill Scott's Sonic Geography of Black Life

Everywhere we have ever made music, which is to say everywhere we have ever hoped to survive, lives inside this record. Read more via Scalawag: To Whom This May Concern: Jill Scott's Sonic Geography of Black Life.

Album Review: Jill Scott – To Whom This May Concern

Jill Scott has always understood how to make her voice feel physical. Here on To Whom This May Concern, her first album in 10 years, it sounds lived-in in a deeper way. There’s weight in the lower register, warmth in the phrasing, and that familiar conversational glide she’s mastered since Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 — but now everything carries more grain, more breath, more pause. She sounds like someone who has spent years obser…