Through musical poems, flowing like a written diary, the singer goes back to her roots to begin her healing process from decades of transgenerational trauma. Starting from the artist’s description of her struggles as a Black woman in 2016 America, she then situates her storytelling within a broader historical context, spanning centuries of adversity and injustice inflicted upon Black Americans, including her ancestors, grandparents, and parents. Working as a powerful conversation starter, the twenty-one tracks bring some painful and uncomfortable truths to the surface. The album is arguably the artist’s most authentic and candid project.
With such an impressive career already firmly established, A Seat At The Table is, however, on an entirely different level, which elevates Solange to her most superlative artistic heights.
The EP juxtaposes the frustration and pain of a breakup in contrast to the energetic, fast-paced, whimsical funk tunes.
The heart-wrenching, critically acclaimed True was then released in 2012, after four years of relative silence. As a result, Sol-Angel exudes the artist’s fondness for ‘60s soul and funk groups. The title was inspired by the location in downtown Houston where the Knowles family patriarch, Mathew, built a recording studio. In 2008, she returned with Sol-Angel And The Hadley St. After spending her early teen years performing as a backup singer and lyricist, she went solo at the age of sixteen, debuting with her first album Solo Star (2002), an R&B record full of big beats and catchy tunes. Since her first projects, Solange had been experimenting with styles and genres, aiming at broadening her songwriting and musical skills. The record also includes contributions from her family, friends, and rapper/mogul Master P. Happy 5th Anniversary to Solange third studio album A Seat At The Table, originally released September 30, 2016.Īfter four long years from the release of her 2012 extended play release True, Solange Knowles resurfaced with her fourth studio album A Seat At The Table, a sonic and visual manifesto of “identity, empowerment, independence, grief, and healing,” as she described it around the time of its arrival.įor the production process, Solange teamed up with an impressive crop of collaborators including music veterans Raphael Saadiq and The Roots’ leader, Questlove.
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