Chris Richards in The Washington Post has named Vijay Iyer Trio’s Compassion one of the best pop albums of 2024 so far, alongside Kendrick Lamar, Billie Eilish, Pet Shop Boys, and Charlie XCX.
“This affirming new jazzlike album from pianist-composer Vijay Iyer — joined by Linda May Han Oh on bass and Tyshawn Sorey on drums — started the year in a clarifying, constructive way. Is that what “compassion” does? In part, Iyer explains it like so: “I think music is a way that we demonstrate to ourselves that we can find order, we can create it, we can defy the general entropic sense of the world, the feeling of things constantly falling apart.”
