Curtis Harding is one of the few artists in the retro-soul community who seemingly has no interest in nostalgia. He doesn’t evoke the sounds of Black music of the 1960s and ’70s because it makes him cool, but because it’s his lingua franca, and he never sounds like he’s lifting from a particular artist or producer, but conjuring a sound that recalls the past while writing firmly in the present tense. Harding is also an artist eager to grow and innovate even as he evokes past styles, and after making three outstanding and distinctive albums – 2014’s Soul Power, 2017’s Face Your Fear, and 2021’s If Words Were Flowers – he’s taken a bold step forward on 2025’s Departures and Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt. The guiding concept here is Harding is…

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