When I Get Home
| Solange
When I Get Home
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 Knowles' hometown of Houston, Texas. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Solange’s fourth album is unhurried, ambient, and exploratory. Using everything from spiritual jazz to Gucci Mane, Solange conjures her hometown with exceptional songcraft and production.
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Consequence of Sound
A piece of self-discovery that trusts us enough to eschew hand-holding and easy answers.
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SPIN
Solange’s When I Get Home Is Proudly Enigmatic.
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The Guardian
Solange Knowles’s tantalising fourth album conjures fragments and fleeting impressions that get inside your head.
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DJ Booth
Solange's 'When I Get Home' Makes Blackness Sacred.
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Vulture
When I Get Home is hip-hop that doesn’t tell you what to think. It’s soul music that doesn’t tell you what to feel. It’s the answer to the old Funkadelic question: “Who says a jazz band can’t play dance music?”
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refinery29
Much more of an experimental, avant-garde performance artist than her sister, Solange is banking on us going with her to a higher, more spiritual level on When I Get Home, manifesting songs as memories. But she doesn’t shy away from revealing how incomplete and fallible those memories can be.
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Variety
“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.
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The Musical Hype
When I Get Home gives Solange yet another unique R&B album.
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NME
This surprise-released, self-produced record is a reminder that Solange is an R&B frontrunner in her own right. It’s a celebration of women, black culture and – above all – music.
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Slate
Solange’s New Album Reclaims New Age Music as Black Music.
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The New York Times
Another step away from ordinary pop expectations.
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Soul in Stereo
When I Get Home is daring, confusing, sorta brilliant and all kinds of frustrating. Solange’s vision is crystal clear, even when it’s cloudy for the rest of us. But in the end, When I Get Home just feels like a rough draft of a future classic.
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Albumism
Solange Aims High with Captivating & Challenging ‘When I Get Home’.
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Berklee Groove
When I Get Home is a disappointing journey through the random musings of an incredible artist, without the benefit of editing.
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Immortal Reviews
Solange really misses the mark in When I Get Home, failing to synthesize any of her weirdly charged and strangely composed tracks on the record. It’s a lot of bark and no bite, which can never go well.
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Stereogum
On When I Get Home, Solange examines the contours of that feeling and reproduces it in measured but spectacular fashion. In her vision there’s no question: You can always go home again.
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Exclaim!
Driven by feelings, mindfulness and a newfound sense of purpose, the avant-garde album takes on an intensified jazz approach filled with sonic repetition, chord progression and freeform collaboration. And despite being light in lyrics, it's heavy in Houston traditions.
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Positively Undergorund
It’s a document of a different pop world, one where the listener isn’t allowed a road map, rather a collection of shapes and angles to explore and ponder. Always fascinating to hear this from such a pillar of contemporary mainstream culture.
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Northern Transmissions
Solange’s When I Get Home is as cool and polished as we’ve come to expect, though it rests in its own visions of home instead of bringing the usual edge in her message.
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NOW Toronto
With her dreamy tribute to her Houston roots, the R&B/soul auteur shows the South has still got something to say.
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Entertainment Weekly
When I Get Home, for all its gentle textures and repeated lyrics, is such a stunning effort. Solange creates such fully realized art that even when she may be expressing uncertainty and doubt, she’s charging herself — and her audience — with finding possibility.
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Noisey
Solange’s New Album is a Homecoming Like No Other.
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Brooklyn Vegan
Solange’s ‘When I Get Home’ is a daring, satisfying sequel to a classic.
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The Washington Post
It’s easy to feel like we’ve reached a deep vantage inside Solange’s head space. We’re her collaborators, too. We hear things she imagined.
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Forbes
Solange's 'When I Get Home' Connects A Universal Black Experience To Houston Subculture.
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Treble Zine
When I Get Home is a deconstructed format of a classic soul album loaded with sound palettes, mood colors and chord progressions . . . working along the chopped and screwed “trippy” ethos textually referring to the past and future simultaneously.
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Metro
R&B today is the most vital, persuasive example of the principle that has kept pop moving forward from the start: that music can be at once adventurous, experimental and commercial. When I Get Home very much affirms Solange’s seat at that table.
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Hot New Hip Hop
Solange lives in the balance of faith on "When I Get Home," her rightful passage back to Houston, Texas.
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The National Student
When I Get Home is more refined than it is a development and ultimately exhibits Solange and her array of guests totally at ease.
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The Ratings Game
Solange pushes every single boundary when it comes to creativity on this album.
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Financial Times
Fluid tracks and many references to Houston neighbourhoods create the feel of one continuous concept track.
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Los Angeles Times
A lovingly assembled production that rarely goes where you expect it to.
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Time
This is Solange’s show, from concept to production.
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Qrewcial
Solange celebrates Houston with sounds and samples that made the south the underrated home of diverse hip-hop influences and iconography.
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WTBU Radio
Overall, the album is a spellbinding arrangement of ethereal melodies and enigmatic lyrics that celebrate one artist’s transcendent vision to honor black womanhood and her hometown of Houston.
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The Anomaly Diary
In as much as we love Solange for who she is, her album isn’t that good.
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Independent
An uplifting antidote to the painful reality black people face.
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Hot 97
This project has 19 tracks on it and each of them will give fans of a bit of Houston and they get to witness how Solange continues to push the creative envelope.
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Clash Music
Overall, ‘When I Get Home’ is a triumph, and is the kind of album you put on to reach your calming, safe place, when you get home at the end of a long day.
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USA Today
'When I Get Home': Solange's new album is one of 2019's best releases yet.
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Thomas Bleach
Solange’s fourth studio album ‘When I Get Home’ does end up disappointing in comparison to her widely acclaimed ‘A Seat At The Table’ which saw her take centre stage in the spotlight. This album just loses her momentum as she fades away with a hazy production of soul-R&B that doesn’t deliver the same punch as it’s proceeder.
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The Nevada Sage Brush
This release fuses jazz sonics with funk, electronic and pop sounds to make a unique and deeply cultural masterpiece.
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The Brown Daily Herald
Solange Knowles’s highly-anticipated fourth album showcases her dream-like sonic power.
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Daily 49er
Three years since her last album, Solange releases new magical tunes that amplifies her jazz sound.
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NZ Herald
This isn't something you're going to listen to on repeat without tuning it out the bulk of the time, but it is still gorgeous and a joy to read into and explore and I think that was the intention.
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First Post
From the snippets of other voices on the interludes to Solange’s deft handling of memory, this album is one that seems to be made for her friends, with the wider world lucky to get a listen.
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All Music
It comes across as both spontaneous and deliberate.
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The Fresh Committee
The production value here is high, and most of the guests perform well. If you’re looking for an album simply to vibe to, then by all means give this a listen.
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Spectrum Pulse
For as much as I might respect this album's intentions and ideas, the structural issues may hold this back from resonating outside a narrower audience to which the emotive connection will overrule any of those observations.
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The Daily
An expert, exploratory follow-up to ‘A Seat at the Table'.
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Radio13
She co-wrote and co-produced every song on When I Get Home and comes across here as an artist in complete control of her musical destiny.
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Uproxx
The whole endeavor brings to mind another project from 2016: Kanye West’s The Life Of Pablo, another unfinished, hurried album whose progenitor did his best to convince us that its slapdash composition was the result of a grand artistic vision rather than an Emperor’s New Clothes-esque hustle.
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Highsnobiety
Solange’s ‘When I Get Home’ Is a Divine Stream of Consciousness.
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Stereoboard
The irreverence and intelligence demonstrated by Solange's progressive vision is striking.
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Young Post
‘When I Get Home’ by Solange falls short of its potential.
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Melt Reviews
Yes this album does feature thought-provoking subject matter, but that subject matter is translated through lackluster songwriting.
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The Student Playlist
Solange’s surprise new album ‘When I Get Home’ is a meditation on home, dreams, growth and feminine intuition, packaged in futuristic jazz and funk-inspired art-pop.
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Top 5 Rap Website
Very good; a few bland songs or minor flaws throughout.
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Medium
When I Come Home is a passive listening experience that strives for mood-setting rather than provocation, yet still attempts to challenge the listener with random inclusions of social commentary, repetition, and genre-blending.
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The Ringer
On her new album, a follow-up to 2016’s perception-altering ‘A Seat at the Table,’ the singer-songwriter reaches for abstract beauty and finds more than that.
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No Hipsters Allowed
Sometimes, the experiment produces amazing art; other times, it produces trash. When I Get Home gives us a little bit of both, and quite frankly, the hipster-types that live for experimental music will eat it up.
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First Klass Breakfast
When I Get Home is a transcendent work revealing a window into Solange’s mind, her faith, and her culture; and possibly into our own.
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Marble Music
The hushed beauty of Solange‘s staggering new album is something rarely accomplished with such class and candor.
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Straits Times
Solange's concept album When I Get Home is a meandering effort that remains intriguing.
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NPR
Solange continues that creative ethos and embraces all sides of herself in the process — pushing listeners' comfort levels into the realm of the avant-garde, but keeping the heart of it all distinctively down-home.
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UD Review
In Solange’s music the strength and power to recognize our collective identity is given, inspiring us to find ourselves through song.
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Pop Sugar
Solange Knowles has descended to deliver another heavenly album.
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Out Magazine
If you don’t understand the new Solange album, then you probably don’t understand Solange.
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Daily Trojan
Solange solidifies stardom on ‘When I Get Home'.
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There Stands the Glass
When I Get Home represents everything I love about the current musical moment even as it recalls the seminal work of Stevie Wonder and Erykah Badu.
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Daily Emerald
Solange transforms old conventions into a glistening jewel on ‘When I Get Home’.
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The Daily Free Press
Solange’s ‘When I Get Home’ is a satisfying return to form.
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Rhyme Junkie
When I Get Home is lovely, delicate, and light.
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Legends Will Never Die
This is EASILY a serious contender for the best R&B album of 2019. It’s bit more psychedelic than A Seat at the Table, but it’s just as introspective & lush. Another near perfect example of why Solange is on par (or maybe even better) than her sister.
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Radio Milwaukee
Solange is artistically repetitive and subtly reborn in her latest album, 'When I Get Home'.
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The Phoenix
“When I Get Home” holds a great deal of promise and a number of genuinely excellent moments, but I doubt it will be remembered as great.
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Sound Opinions
The music is worth several listens to get into the layers of those chant-like lyrics and Solange's dream-like singing tone.
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Mashable
Solange drops new album and it's an absolute banger.
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Buzzfeed News
When I Get Home is a vessel for both the personal and the political, making space to think about what our ongoing moment means.
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Patrick Tervo
Overall, When I Get Home is an exhilarating experience, and it's definitely one of the stand-out albums from 2019 so far. There's really nothing like it, and something so out of the ordinary can only created by someone as unique as Solange herself.
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McGill Tribune
Solange’s ‘When I Get Home’ is an avant-garde celebration of black excellence.
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The Crimson
Eclectic and Electrifying, Solange Seduces in ‘When I Get Home’.
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NJUS
A piece of self-discovery that trusts its audience enough to eschew hand-holding and easy answers.
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Vogue
Last night, Solange dropped her first album since 2016’s critically acclaimed A Seat At The Table, and it’s every bit as genius as you would expect.
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Houston Chronicle
The album feels like driving down a street in one direction, turning around and taking the opposite way back; a different perspective offers different things that catch your eye.
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The Atlantic
The musician’s first studio project since A Seat at the Table emphasizes the revelatory power of repetition.
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Dance to the Radio
It will not necessarily be a memorable release for some, but I do recommend that every music lover listen to it, since the arrangements and ideas present here are hypnotizing.
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Stupid Dope
The beautiful and incredibly talented, Solange is back!
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