The closing piece, “Aria 4 Arien”, is Dos Santos at her dreamiest. Disco-adjacent sounds add sparkle to both the chillout piece “Cupid’s Bow” and the energetic robot anthem “Ghost in the Shell”. Samba, bossa nova, and other Brazilian sounds enter the soundscape for “Away From Me”, “Filha do Sol”, and “Bye”. Slowed-down reggaetón beats mark “Hello Hello”. The latter track also hearkens to early 2000s neo-soul and R&B, major parts of the album’s overall aura on tracks like “Patience”, “Angel in Disguise”, and “Just Sayin'”. Certainly, jazz is foundational mellow “Crooked House” and bass-heavy “The Player and the Fool” have astral leanings. Though she’s often placed in the jazz realm, Dos Santos blends a wide range of genres in her work. She sings of home, heartbreak, love, and ancestry alike with inclinations toward the cosmic, every emotion interconnected in an expansive sonic universe of synth-powered keys, strings, drums, and radiant vocals. Dos Santos embraces her multifaceted sensibilities over Morfo’s 13 tracks of quasi-psychedelic soul. There’s more of it here than ever before. Morfois a continuation and amplification of everything that makes Charlotte Dos Santos an entrancing artist: gossamer voice, luscious atmosphere, and a pervasive sense of wonder. On 2020’s EP Harvest Time, she moved into an even more ethereal melodic sphere with pastorally-tinged musings on the world. The jazzy slow jams of 2017 release Cleo established her as a heavenly chanteuse with pleasant vintage vibes. You’d be hard-pressed to find a more aesthetically pleasing analogue to Dos Santos’s career arc so far. This insect seems in constant flux through space and time, growing from a neon caterpillar to its full and almost unearthly iridescence. Morfo is named for the blue butterfly iconic to the forests of the Amazon. In naming her new long-awaited album, Charlotte Dos Santos looked not only to her Brazilian roots but to ideas of change and transformation.
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