NPR Music’s 50 Best Albums of 2021

‘The Turning Wheel’ is number 36 on NPR’s 50 best albums of 2021 list. Here is the wonderful write up by Ann Powers-

‘Ursula K. Leguin once compared truth to a pearl, its sheen enhanced or diminished by the imaginative power of the woman who cultivates, protects and wears it. On her third album as Spellling, the Bay Area-based wizardess Chrystia Cabral employs the language of myth, magic and fancy to illuminate her reality as an empathic artist negotiating the realities of a world that's multifariously on fire. Exchanging the dark languor of previous synth-based sets for the dappled expanses of orch pop, Cabral finds power in the language of forebears like Minnie Riperton and Kate Bush while staying true to her own restlessness and sense of delight. "I'm in a permanent revolution," she cries, and the phrase — like tapestry of this album — is joyfully fantastical, deeply personal and resolutely political. The truth gleams through its wild tales’