Album Review: Solange's “When I Get Home” is a challenging yet satisfying follow-up to the critically revered “A Seat at the Table."

The successor to the brilliant 2016 album A Seat At The Table was officially released: When I Get Home, the album that sees Solange honoring her home town. “When I Get Home” is the follow-up to Solange’s breakthrough 2016 album, “A Seat at the Table.” legendswillneverdie LWND Reviews, New reviews March 1, 2019 March 1, 2019 1 Minute. It isn’t a detour or an experiment. But ultimately, it’s a sleepy, uplifting antidote to the often painful reality that black people, particularly black Americans in Solange’s experience, have been increasingly facing in recent years. Her 2016 release A Seat At The Table was a … Solange comes forth with a new album right after Black History Month entering Womans History Month. When I Get Home, on the one hand, is a portrait of Solange, following the success of A Seat at the Table, leaning to the point of falling into all the most pretentious aspects of that record. Solange Delivers a Stunning Love Letter to Houston on When I Get Home A piece of self-discovery that trusts us enough to eschew hand-holding and easy answers Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for When I Get Home - Solange on AllMusic - 2019 - Unfazed by having to follow a landmark album that… Solange is a 32 year old singer, songwriter & actress from Houston, Texas known for being the younger sister of Beyoncé. This surprise-released, self-produced record is a reminder that Solange is an R&B frontrunner in her own right. Solange: When I Get Home – the Snapchat album (Columbia) Solange Knowles’s tantalising fourth album conjures fragments and fleeting impressions that get inside your head When I Get Home is the most confident Solange has sounded, despite this album bring the loosest in terms of concept. Solange – “When I Get Home” review. When I Get Home is most certainly not Solange’s Life of Plants. On Solange’s new album, “When I Get Home,” the artist presents a lush, gorgeous musical world that plays with our understanding of what a song is. It isn’t the past being mirrored or repeated. A product of Houston, full of candy paint, swangin, and screwed-up sounds, When I Get Home is universal because of Solange’s deep respect for her own home. It is incredibly hard not to be enamored by When I Get Home.Its jazz-funk leanings and spliced-in samples create an enigmatic and fantasmic world in which Solange dazzles and shines. It isn’t a detour or an experiment. Review: Solange’s ‘When I Get Home’ is a Therapeutic Tribute to Her Native Houston The singer creates a freeform atmosphere on a richly unrestrained LP. Review A number of songs is titled after places in the Texan city. Album Review: Solange's “When I Get Home” is a challenging yet satisfying follow-up to the critically revered “A Seat at the Table." Solange repeats "I saw things I imagined", or some variation thereof, 16 times in the first minute of When I Get Home.Sometimes it's just "things I imagined". Using everything from spiritual jazz to Gucci Mane, Solange conjures her hometown with exceptional songcraft and production. Solange’s ‘When I Get Home’ is available to buy or stream. Solange: When I Get Home – the Snapchat album ... Or maybe we approach albums such as When I Get Home on a deeper level after all, because we are forced to … We’re in the midst of ever-escalating chaos. Solange lives in the balance of faith on 'When I Get Home,' her rightful passage back to Houston, Texas. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for When I Get Home - Solange on AllMusic - 2019 - Unfazed by having to follow a landmark album that… Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for When I Get Home - Solange on AllMusic - 2019 - Unfazed by having to follow a landmark album that… On her last album it felt like she was unpacking the pieces of pain and puzzling them together - the empowerment came from an arrival in a better place. When I Get Home is an album, yes. Next Sunday, March 3rd, Solange organizes a number of events in the city, celebrating the album’s release. ... Solange has the vision, we’ll just have to wait for her to get us there. Solange’s fourth album is unhurried, ambient, and exploratory.