Solange - A Seat at the Table (National Album Day)
DUE ON 15.10.21 - 2 X LP WHITE VINYL
A defiant stand for black identity told through hazy clippings of psychedelic soul. Solanges third studio album was a long time in the making, having not released one since 2008. By 2016, African-Americanism had been through it all, from the optimism of Barack Obamas election, the anger of the Ferguson riots, the water crisis of Flint, Michigan and the rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Solange doesnt shy away from any of it, articulating the collective experience of Black Americans in the new Millennium. With help from Raphael Saadiq, Dev Hynes and features from Lil Wayne, Tweet and Kelly Rowland, the album is warm but unconventionally arranged, with fleeting familiarity and an admiration that blooms the deeper you delve.
Tracklist:
LP 1:
1. Rise
2. Weary
3. Interlude: The Glory is in You
4. Cranes in the Sky
5. Interlude: Dad Was Mad
6. Mad [feat. Lil Wayne and Moses Sumney]
7. Don't You Wait
8. Interlude: Tina Taught Me
9. Don't Touch My Hair [feat. Sampha]
LP 2:
1. Interlude: This Moment
2. Where Do We Go
3. Interlude: For Us By Us
4. F.U.B.U. [feat. The-Dream and BJ The Chicago Kid]
5. Borederline (An Ode to Self Care) [feat. Q-Tip]
6. Interlude: I Got So Much Magic, You Can Have It [feat. Kelly Rowland and Nia Andrews]
7. Junie
8. Interlude: No Limits
9. Don't Wish Me Well
10. Interlude: Pedestals
11. Scales [feat. Kelela]
12. Closing: The Chosen Ones