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Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt Image
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  • Summary: The fourth full-length from the Atlanta-based self-described "slop 'n' soul" artist Curtis Harding is a concept album about being lost in space and the feelings it evokes.
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  1. Mojo
    Sep 5, 2025
    80
    Intergalactic longing underpins Banh Me, its closing synth solo reaching blindly, hopefully into the endlessness of Space, while Out In The Black finds his Captain Curt using his isolation amid the stars doe some powerful internal reckoning. [Oct 2025, p.84]
  2. Sep 5, 2025
    80
    If Departures and Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt has flaws, they don't change the fact it's an audacious bit of record-making that succeeds far more often than it fails, and once again confirms Harding is a major artist whose talents deserve a far wider audience.
  3. Uncut
    Sep 5, 2025
    70
    "Time" hits hardest, a righteous prayer riding on Stax brass and gospel harmonies toward safe harbour. [Oct 2025, p.28]
  4. Record Collector
    Sep 5, 2025
    60
    It's a metaphor for absence, loneliness and disconnection, which Harding explores via eleven songs whose retro soul feel is enhanced by Steve Hackman's lavishly elegant string arrangements. [Oct 2025, p.131]