Angels & Queens is the debut studio album by Compton, California soul trio Gabriels, released in two parts by Atlas Artists and Parlophone.

[15] They were also called the best-dressed group of the day,[15] with all three members in tuxedos and Lusk's outfit – custom-made and planned five months in advance[16] – also including a red cape and brocade overcoat.

Petridis focuses praise on "the sound of [Lusk's] voice multitracked to infinity" on piano ballad "If You Only Knew" and the "dense funk" of that song and the title track.

Producer Sounwave "helps craft a sound that feels entirely of the moment", shown through the backing instrumental of "The Blind" which "is made of a stumbling, clattering array of samples" with vocals "drenched in backwards reverb" and "the piano and strings battl[ing] for space with droning, overcast synths"; and "To the Moon and Back" which opens with orchestration which "could have transported there directly from a 1940s jazz ballad" but is "swiftly replaced by a cavernous-sounding swirl of massed vocals and an insistent, cyclical bass riff.

"[28] The Arts Desk's Peter Quinn calls the project "a collection of seven songs which take you on very different emotional journeys, with structures that take surprising twists and turns and redemptive codas that make your hair stand on end", highlighting the "monstrous snare hits, hysterical strings, forceful horn stabs and hypnotically repeating piano lines" of "Taboo" as "like what might have ensued if J Dilla had chopped up a slice of Philly soul", as well as the "horns surreptitiously sliding into the texture" of "Remember Me" and the "impressively vast wall of vocal harmonies which threatens to bring "Mama" crashing down".

"[23] Dazed's Emmanuel Onapa calls the album "a rare exploration of love and loss through [the trio's] collective but different perspectives, melding a range of styles from classic R&B, jazz, soul and gospel filled with hope and euphoria.

"[34] The Independent's Kevin EG Perry says that Lusk "channels Nina Simone and Billie Holiday as he wrings every drop of emotion from the group's songs of love and loss.

"[35] All tracks are written by Ari Balouzian, Jacob Lusk, Ryan Hope, and Mark Anthony Spears with additional writers noted.