Danielle Ponder Meshes Old-School Soul With Future Sounds on the Dazzling ‘Everything Has Changed’: Album Review

By Jem Aswad

Jem Aswad

Executive Editor, Music

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There have been many innovative R&B albums made over the past decade, but few have meshed futurism and tradition in quite the way that Danielle Ponder does on her second full-length, “Everything Has Changed.” She possesses a glass-shatteredly powerful, church-reared soul shouter voice, but uses its power sparingly, moving between it, a mid-range alto and an intimate, vulnerable soprano — sometimes shifting abruptly from it into a throat-shredding belt that is basically the opposite of vulnerable.

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