While her singer songwriter sound takes a back-seat to upbeat funk and rocking grooves, her identity is front in center in each and every song making this an album to please her current fans and certainly bring new fans into the fold.
Songs like “Charlemagne” and “Never Mine” bring the listener into an intimate space that explores the sonic spectrum that Stevens has built her name around, while songs like “Slow Burn” and “True Minds” show a side of Becca that remind us that her talent is seemingly limitless.
Without wanting to compare musicians to each other as the first path in describing a sound or style, it feels like Stevens is bringing together a sound that Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson would be proud of while brainy musicians like Jacob Collier and St. Vincent would be a perfect fit for future collaborations.
While I would have loved her to have done even more with experimental funky rock like in the song “I Wish” there is no denying that Wonderbloom shows a side of Becca Stevens that is new and exciting and really bodes well for the future of music.