NPR MUSIC: NPR Music's 26 Favorite Albums Of 2021 (So Far)
NPR MUSIC: NPR Music's 26 Favorite Albums Of 2021 (So Far)
BY STEPHEN THOMPSON
“Born in Pakistan and based in Brooklyn, Arooj Aftab revises, adapts and otherwise reimagines South Asian music — poetic songs of grief and desire that follow paths blazed by the likes of Abida Parveen and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (as well as Jeff Buckley, a Nusrat devotee). To say she's a worthy heir is hardly an overstatement; the songs on Vulture Prince swoon, stun and hypnotize, while never traversing the same terrain twice.”