Solange
When I Get Home LP vinyl

When I Get Home is an expansive, intuitive, and heady statement from singer, songwriter, producer, and actress Solange Knowles. Her records have always appealed to a more sophisticated pop listener, 2008’s Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams was a love letter to Motown girl groups, and 2012’s True was refreshed 80’s pop plus Williamsburg PBR&B. A Seat At The Table was neatly textured, intensely personal, and her first #1 album - if you haven’t heard it, you’ve made a huge mistake. When I Get Home continues her journey into herself, constructed with intuitive grooves and lyrics repeated like mantras. It makes sense that this LP was inspired by Alice Coltrane, Steve Reich, and Sun Ra. Grounded in crisp jazz, When I Get Home also integrates elements of hip hop, electronic pop, and drum & bass, reflecting the eclecticism of the places it was recorded - New Orleans, Houston, Topanga Canyon and Jamaica. The production is varied as well, featuring co-production turns from the likes of Earl Sweatshirt, Dev Hynes, Metro Boomin, Pharrell, Tyler The Creator, and Panda Bear. “Stay Flo” is gently chiming piano with restrained drums keeping synthesizer bleeps at bay, “Almeda” is drowzy trap beats with hazy synth washes and features a vocal appearance by Playboy Carti. Guests are kept to the minimum, with Sampha appearing on “Time (Is) and The-Dream on “Binz”, leaving ample room for Knowles’ cosmic abstraction. 

NEW / Released in 2019
 

Tracklist:

A1 (01.) Things I Imagined

A2 (02.) S McGregor (Interlude)

A3 (03.) Down With The Clique

A4 (04.) Way To The Show

A5 (05.) Can I Hold The Mic (Interlude)

A6 (06.) Stay Flo

A7 (07.) Dreams

A8 (08.) Nothing Without Intention (Interlude)

A9 (09.) Almeda

B1 (10.) Time (Is)

B2 (11.) My Skin My Logo

B3 (12.) We Deal With The Freak'n (Interlude)

B4 (13.) Jerrod

B5 (14.) Binz

B6 (15.) Beltway

B7 (16.) Exit Scott (Interlude)

B8 (17.) Sound Of Rain

B9 (18.) Not Screwed! (Interlude)

B10 (19.) I'm A Witness