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Keeping the theme Houston-as-hell, samples on the album include Devin The Dude, Scarface and Mike Jones. Other contributions on the album include Tyler, The Creator ("Down With The Clique"), Cassie ("Way To The Show") The-Dream ("Binz"), Gucci Mane ("My Skin My Logo") and more. She added that "there are melodies slow enough to sink you into a state of tranquility, and beats hard and strong enough to push you to sway and dance while that happens". When I Get Home features a wide range of collaborators including big names such as Pharrell and Tyler, the Creator, underground artists such as ABRA and Standing on the Corner and even experimental pop artist Panda Bear of Animal Collective fame.
Unfazed by having to follow a landmark album that crowned the Billboard 200, went gold, and yielded a hit that took a Grammy, Solange leisurely detours with When I Get Home. Made in spots as remote as Los Angeles and Jamaica, the follow-up to A Seat at the Table was also recorded in New Orleans and Solange's native Houston. Most pertinent is the last location, referenced repeatedly in expressions of nostalgia, pride, and tranquility, as well as in titular geographic markers.
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Her stint as the face of the 2017 Michael Kors street-style campaign was a blend of accessibility, storybook beauty, and metropolitan sophistication. The same year’s Calvin Klein digital holiday campaign dressed the singer in denim alongside friends and musical collaborators in a barn, as a meditation on the concepts of family and Americana. Last year’s Hammer Museum performance piece “Metatronia (Metatron’s Cube)” used music, interpretive dance, and sculpture to create “charge through visual storytelling.” This month’s new visual album When I Get Home unites these interdisciplinary exercises like a lodestone. Solange is creating a beautiful Black America of the mind, imagining how far we would get in a society unencumbered by division and disorder. Two-and-a-half years after the release of A Seat At The Table, Solange shares her surprise CQ visual album When I Get Home.
Like her previous, groundbreaking album A Seat at the Table, Home is a rich tableau of collaboration, black history, and references to her Houston upbringing (the homeward destination implied by the collection’s title), but the album takes even more experimental risks with her sound. Among the mix of artists involved are Gucci Mane, Dev Hynes, Earl Sweatshirt, Cassie and … a viral Atlanta public-access sexpert? It’s already been two years since the release of Solange Knowles’ When I Get Home. To celebrate her fourth studio album’s debut, the Grammy award-winning visual artist has teamed up with the Criterion Channel to exclusively premiere a remastered director’s cut of its accompanying art film. As icing on the anniversary cake, a series of digital activations will go down this week on her Black Planet page and feature art installations created over the years, a digital collage of fan images and testimonial stories curated by Solo, along with special performances and screenings. Like A Seat at the Table, Solange gave us little time to prepare for When I Get Home, mostly because sharing her art makes her antsy; drawing out the process would only make it worse.
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The collaborators on the album, just like Solange, don't impose themselves on the music. Some tracks, such as "Almeda" ("Black skin, black braids/Black waves, black days/Black baes, black days/These are black-owned things") could easily become cruising anthems. In the following days, Solange continued to release clips on her IG, all tagged with her hometown of Houston, TX as the location, with references that her newer, younger, and more mainstream-leaning fans may not have picked up on. On Wednesday, she shouted out Devin the Dude, a Houston rapper signed to the storied Rap-a-Lot records. On Thursday morning, she posted a phone number instantly recognizable to fans who were old enough to cop their own, uncensored music in the mid-’00s. Jem Aswad at Variety wrote that "When I Get Home is a challenging and satisfying follow-up to A Seat at the Table, one that will probably baffle some fans but intrigue and engage even more".
There are Moog keyboards and springy, ambling basslines reminiscent of ’70s soul. Solange layers her voice and others in cascades of harmony and also employs trap cadences on more upbeat songs. On “Almeda” and “My Skin My Logo,” she recruits the rappers Playboi Carti and Gucci Mane, respectively, who deliver blithe verses. The project, a follow-up to her critically acclaimed 2016 album, A Seat at the Table, plays like a love letter to the rich culture of the black diaspora, looking to both the past and the future for inspiration. This is most apparent in the incredible range of artists she works with, who range from respected industry veterans like Raphael Saadiq and Pharrell Williams to forward-thinking stars of the moment like Standing on the Corner, Earl Sweatshirt and Playboi Carti. But make no mistake about it — this is Solange’s show, from concept to production.
The lyrics deal with strong feminist themes and a celebration of blackness.
Tracks on the album such as “Stay Flo” and “Almeda” delivered the album’s hip-hop and trap elements. As we are whisked further into the record, Solange makes the listener more acquainted with her side of the world and how she feels about the people in it. The track “Dreams” gracefully follows an interlude with ethereal, nostalgic vocals “I grew up a little girl with/ Dreams, dreams, dreams, dreams, dreams…” Another standout track is the powerful “Almeda”. There is something noteworthy about a black woman’s resilience and the constant uphill battles she is made to endure; “Almeda” is an embodiment of all of this.
The album also features contributions from several high-profile musicians, including Sampha, Playboi Carti, Gucci Mane, Panda Bear, Tyler, the Creator, Metro Boomin, The-Dream, Abra, Dev Hynes, Steve Lacy, Earl Sweatshirt, and Scarface. When I Get Home is the fourth studio album by American singer and songwriter Solange, released on March 1, 2019. It is the follow-up to her 2016 album A Seat at the Table and explores Solange's hometown of Houston, Texas. Frequent collaborators like Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes and The-Dream (both previously worked on 2016’s A Seat at the Table) also make appearances. Solange released her highly anticipated fourth album When I Get Home on Friday , which is stacked with big-name guest artists.
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While the east coast was struggling to tape their eyelids open, the west coast was basically having lunch break. The award-winning artist is commemorating the 2-year anniversary of her fourth LP with a remastered director's cut of its accompanying art film. Artists and creators are working to restore a depth and richness to music and content that’s felt diminished over the last several years.
The lyrics deal with strong feminist themes and a celebration of blackness. I will say, watching Solange evolve while still being the same girl her original fans fell in love with, is fascinating to watch. Because we know the Knowles family never does anything without intention, Solange announced she was dropping her album, When I Get Home at midnight on March 1. By calling the number, fans were able to hear song snippets in anticipation of the full serving.
"But with electronic and hip-hop drum and bass because I want it to bang and make your trunk rattle." The Internet’s Steve Lacy also contributed production, which Solange hinted at when she previously told the Times that the two had been “jamming” together. The film was released alongside the album through Apple Music on March 1, 2019. The 41-minute director's cut of the film was released on all platforms on December 12, 2019.
The cleverest placement might be the sampled gospel group singing "Please take the wheel forever." In the context of When I Get Home, their devoted appeal takes on a literal meaning while losing none of its redemptive intent. There are people bound to shut the record off and demand to know where the traditional songs are. Hip-hop heads of a certain age will find it scratches the same itch Doom and Madlib’s Madvillainy did. Both albums are offbeat structures made from short, evocative song fragments. Fans of weirder stuff will hear shades of Todd Rundgren’s A Wizard, A True Star, itself a woozy, psychedelic tribute to the back end of the Beatles’ Abbey Road, where Lennon and McCartney bounced quick sketches off each other to brilliant effect. The seamless sequencing is also reminiscent of Solange’s Texas-soul elder, Erykah Badu, whose 2000 album Mama’s Gun unfurled as a playlist that didn’t really stop between tracks.
Solange Releases New Album 'When I Get Home' With just two days of warning, Solange shares the surprise album When I Get Home. "Exit Scott" contains a sample from "Poem to Ann #2" as written and performed by Pat Parker; used courtesy of Sinister Wisdom and The Olivia Companies. "Dreams"contains a sample from "No" as written and performed by Duval Timothy; used courtesy of Carrying Colour.
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