20 since '20: ESSENTIAL SOULFUL ALBUMS (2020 - 2026)

Here's a playlist of 20 of our favourite, go-to soulful albums released since 2020.

2026 (so far)

Jill Scott - To Whom This May Concern

Shabaka - Of The Earth

2025

Rosalia - Lux

Ganavya - Nilam

Obongjayar - Paradise Now | Paradise Now and Forever

2024

Yirinda - Yirinda

Thee Marloes - Perak

Nala Sinephro - Endlessness

2023

Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music

Jose James - On & On

Dhafer Youssef - Streets of Minarets

2022

Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn - Pigments

Gabriels - Angels & Queens

Perfume Genius - Ugly Season

2021

Lady Blackbird - Black Acid Soul

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, London Symphony Orchestra - Promises

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE

2020

SAULT - Untitled (Black Is) | Untitled (Rise)

Olafur Arnalds - some kind of peace

Alabaster DePlume - To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1

Eternally Soulful

Frank Ocean - Blonde (2016)

D'Angelo - Black Messiah (2014)

Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees (1976)