Devilishly Brilliant: The Mastery of Me'Shell

It's blasphemous that as a music junkie who prides herself on knowing when her favorite underrated artists release new music that I had no idea that Me'Shell N'degeocello has released her masterful "Devil's Halo" in October! What??? In this current lackluster music industry, it's easy to lose sight of the few extraordinary, groundbreaking, and brilliant artists that we still have.

Me'shell. The average music listener has no idea who this fierce original musician is. Even if she briefly attained MTV attention in the 90's with the smash hit "If That's Your Boyfriend..." The average music listener has no idea of the near-perfect collection of albums Me'shell has released in the past decade.

Me'shell is perhaps the closest artist to Prince--in terms of originality and musicianship. She defines genre and conceptualizes songs about everything from religion, gender, sexual, and social politics--and don't forget about love and heartbreak. On her most profound album "Bitter" she creates a melancholy masterpiece about heartbreak unlike anything I've ever heard. If you're going to buy one Me'shell, that's one I most highly recommend.

Now Me'shell has released "Devil's Halo," -- an achingly beautiful and wholly understated album, textured, dimensional, filled with soulful yearning, and blasting all genres into oblivion---an album colliding into the perfect storm of beauty and brilliance.

Damn y'all. She did it again.