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The director's cut features new sequences, as well as a previously unreleased track titled "Dreams ." A limited edition DVD of the director's cut was sold on the album's one-year anniversary, among other merchandise items, through her BlackPlanet page. On the album's second anniversary, the remastered film began streaming through the Criterion Channel. Directed and edited by Solange, the creative vision behind the 33-minute film was inspired in part by the devastation of Hurricane Harvey in Houston. Music video director Alan Ferguson, filmmaker Terence Nance, visual artist Jacolby Satterwhite, and video director Ray Tintori contributed to the editing process with additional credit given to Autumn Knight and Robert Pruitt, according to Pitchfork. Solange produced the album alongside a variety of collaborators, including John Key, John Carroll Kirby, Standing on the Corner, Chassol, Jamire Williams, and Pharrell Williams.
Solange's use of BlackPlanet as her primary promotion platform served as cultural commentary in of itself; the popular late 90s-early aughts site, one of the most visited black-oriented websites for years, was also a pioneer in online social networking. As part of your account, you’ll receive occasional updates and offers from New York, which you can opt out of anytime. The slow burn of Solange's previous album, A Seat At The Table, included a months-long, festival-hopping world tour with a grandiose stage design inspired by the iconic sets of Earth, Wind & Fire, a commemorative book, and earning numerous accolades and awards. Off of first impressions, there seems little reason to expect any less with When I Get Home.
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The artist wrote and produced the 19-track "When I Get Home," which clocks in just under 40 minutes. At under 40 minutes total, it’s a quick and breezy listen, which compliments its overall airy and chill feel. I didn’t realize it was done until I heard other Solange songs on my playlist. Which, by the way, I think midnight music album drops and the NBA Finals are the only times there’s Pacific Standard Time privilege.
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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Compared to A Seat at the Table, the balance of which processed anguish and anger, this is lighter and freer, above all else a luxuriant bliss-out. From the early moment where Solange makes like a group of harmonizing, sunlit Janet Jacksons, it sounds custom-made for a basking joy ride that tops out around 20 mph and slows just enough to accommodate get-ons and drop-offs for a variable group of companions including a lover. Some portions sound raw enough to have been generated on the spot, prioritizing feeling over "proper" songs.
On the day of the album’s release, Solange also announced a companion film to When I Get Home on her Twitter. NCCU Women's Center started the discussion series "Protecting Black Women" to shine a light on how women of color are often not valued in America on October 21, 2020 via Zoom. With the combination of Solange’s soothing voice, the occasional use of up-tempo hip hop beats, and her ever-present originality, “When I Get Home” shifted Solange into a new level of musical and cultural eccentricity. The combination of a subtle, yet daring wardrobe alongside spoken vocal samples, and avant-garde visuals allowed Solange to tell a story about origin and evolution, all while paying homage to her Houstonian roots. She then posted short videos with new music on BlackPlanet, Twitter and Instagram (one clip turned out to be the interlude "Nothing Without Intention").
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"It asks the question how much of ourselves do we bring with us versus leave behind in our evolution. The artist returned to Third Ward Houston to answer this." It's fitting that an album called "When I Get Home" would be dripping with references to Houston, Solange's hometown (she grew up in the city's Third Ward). The track-listing contains several references to Houston streets, landmarks and musical styles. "I'm filled w so much joy right now!!!" Solange wrote on Twitter when she announced the release Thursday night. "I can't thank y'all enough for this moment and for all the feelings i feel in my body! I'm bringing home w me everywhere I go yalll ... Your love lifts me up so high."
Arly on Friday morning, Solange Knowles released her fourth studio album, When I Get Home. The 19-track album, which the singer and performance artist teased with a mysterious social media roll-out throughout the week, features star-studded collaborations, references to her hometown of Houston, Texas, interludes from feminist writers and production from her teenage son, Julez. Over the last three years, the Houston singer, songwriter, producer, and artist has worked quietly and intensely on a series of projects across mediums whose purpose seems to be to envision the peace and order the real world lacks. Her 2016 studio album, A Seat at the Table, and “Orion’s Rise,” a visually stimulating live production presented to select theaters the following summer, provided comfort food for the election-addled masses.
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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.
Emerging stars such as H.E.R, Daniel Caesar, SZA and Jorja Smith have sounds that reach back to earlier music eras, pull elements of substance and nostalgia, and become a new thing in their art, moving the culture forward. Solange is one of the best at manifesting something completely new out of things that are familiar. She’s created her lane by not actually picking one lane, instead proclaiming that she’s bringing home with her wherever she goes, and we’re happy to follow her to the next destination. Fans spent Tuesday and Wednesday searching for old Hotmail and AOL email addresses and passwords, and looking around the site for the first time in years. The platform never shut down, and still feels very retro, as it’s in the process of being updated, but Solange’s new profile was sleek and modern — and offered a sampling of teaser photos, clips and messages, all fervently shared and reposted. The idea of going back to a safe online space was as enticing as the promise of new Solange content.
BlackPlanet was the online destination for black people before MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram existed. There were forums and groups for cities, organizations and affiliations, dating and job hunting. Pages were customizable , teaching a whole generation of black bloggers how to code on the low.
On Solange's fourth full-length album since her 2002 debut, Solo Star, the artist takes listeners on an "exploration of origin" across 19 tracks and a film meshing together static R&B, funk, Zydeco and blues. To accompany the release, Solange announced nine "album events" in her hometown of Houston, all taking place on March 3. As if willed into existence by our collective despair, Solange surprise-released her fourth album, When I Get Home, last night right at the intersection of Black History Month ending and Women’s History Month beginning.
Solange has finally released her anticipated fourth album 'When I Get Home' today , which is stacked with big-name guest artists. Odd Future, the Los Angeles hip-hop collective known for their grisly sense of humor, transgressive aesthetic choices and strong communal spirit, has a strong presence on When I Get Home. Sweatshirt is a member, as is Tyler the Creator, who appears in dense murmurs and ad-libs on “Time and “My Skin My Logo.” Steve Lacy, the guitarist for the exploratory funk band The Internet — which is led by Odd Future member Syd — contributed to three songs.
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.
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