Solange’s "More Sensual" New Album Coming This 2018 Fall, More Details Here!
Solange’s fourth studio album could be dropping any week now. In a The New York Times article published today, it is revealed Solange is eyeing an imminent “fall” release for the “A Seat at the Table” (2016) follow-up and Solange, by means of a quote from an exclusive interview given to the New York Times reporter, speaks of what fans can expect from this upcoming LP.
Release date:
“She has come to this spare, meditative place to put the final touches on her album. What’s it called? How many songs are there? Who did she collaborate with? How will she tour it? The album’s release is imminent this fall, probably sometime soon. But, even within this studio, Solange keeps these details close: The record will likely arrive into the world fully formed at some mysterious and unexpected moment, like a meteor cratering into the culture. But she will not be rushed.”
About the new album:
“The new album calls. The making of it has taken Solange to New Orleans (where she often lives), Jamaica, California’s Topanga Canyon and back to a kind of Houston of the mind. “There is a lot of jazz at the core,” she emailed me a few days after our meeting. “But with electronic and hip-hop drum and bass because I want it to bang and make your trunk rattle.” The sound and feel of the album are set in her mind, but this project, so close to being finished, is still very much in progress — and will be until the very end. “I like to be able to tell the story in 13 different ways, then I like to edit,” she says of her process. Many of the songs on “A Seat at the Table” were 15 minutes long until the final stages of production, when, with surgical decisiveness, Solange cut them down to three or four. She’ll do the same as she completes this yet unnamed album. The record will be warm, she says, fluid and more sensual than her last one. But, seasoned as she is, she’s still nervous. “I have this fear living in my body about releasing work,” she says. “I don’t know any artist that doesn’t feel that before they hit the send button.”
These months leading to the album’s release have been a period of reflection and preparation for the work that is to come. It is not that she has suddenly become a hybrid artist, it is that she has discovered how to execute the hybridity she has always imagined. In assembling a 2017 outdoor performance piece of “Scales” at Donald Judd’s sprawling Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Tex., she encountered spatial difficulties that she says gave her new perspective: “I realize how much wider, figuratively and literally, my work could be if I took myself away as subject.” She is still evolving, finding herself at that point between inspiring others with her activism and art — peers like Janelle Monáe, Questlove and Zoë Kravitz have attended her museum performances, and it was no less than Beyoncé who sang in 2013, “My sister told me I should speak my mind” — and honing her own craft."
Read the full article here.
Can’t wait for this. I’m so ready for Solange’s surprise digital drop. Surprise me, queen!
Let's all get ready for the amazing album that Solange is about to drop by listening to one of my favorite Solange songs from her previous album: