When I Get Home
Nineteen tracks of cosmic jazz, chopped-and-screwed trap, and warm analog R&B. A hypnotic, loop-driven love letter to Houston that feels like a beautiful daydream.
Nineteen tracks of cosmic jazz, chopped-and-screwed trap, and warm analog R&B. A hypnotic, loop-driven love letter to Houston that feels like a beautiful daydream.
Impressionistic tribute
Low, humid synthesizer hums and repetitive, circular drum loops replace the grand, horn-drenched political anthems of her past. This record trades sweeping statements for the hazy, chopped-and-screwed atmosphere of a Houston summer night, turning memories of her hometown into a series of hypnotic, open-ended jams. You feel like you are drifting through a warm, late-night drive, listening to fragments of jazz piano and deep bass lines bleed through an open car window. It is a quiet, radical shift from structured protest to pure, intuitive feeling, capturing the comfort of returning to the streets that raised you.
The writing leans far further into surreal abstract than the rest of the catalogue.
Critics broadly admired the album’s fluid, jazz-inflected production and its departure from traditional pop structures, praising the deeply personal and meditative warmth of its collaborative spirit. Although a few reviewers felt that the repetitive, wandering nature of the tracks made the music feel more atmospheric than direct, most embraced the record as a rich, genre-defying celebration of identity and artistic freedom.
“A celebration of women, black culture and – above all – music”Read review
“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”Read review
“Like Solange herself, the music on Home is unrestrained and freeform. It’s jazzy, funky, brassy and warm”Read review
“Songs play out like mantras, her rawness manifesting as repetition”Read review
“Using everything from spiritual jazz to Gucci Mane, Solange conjures her hometown with exceptional songcraft and production”Read review
“In a year where R&B and hip hop have proved the most innovative and original genres Solange has delivered a brilliantly crafted record that places her right at the top”Read review
“Where 2016’s A Seat At The Table commanded respect, action and validation to an extent, When I Get Home offers respite, support and hope”Read review
“Plays like a dream, but its logic is sound”Read review
“An album that feels like it’s hovering rather than actually heading anywhere, diverting rather than impactful”Read review
“In essence, When I Get Home is a deeply personal album which ditches the standards of the pop industry in many ways”Read review
“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”Read review
“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”Read review
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