Yes, after a four year wait, Solange is releasing the follow-up to her acclaimed EP "True", which has grown in credibility of mythic proportions! Will you be purchasing? Will she finally gain a popularity that rivals her famous big sis?

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Solange Knowles to release new album on Friday

'A Seat at the Table' is her first since 2012's 'True'

by Derek Lawrence • @dlaw1988

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Posted September 27 2016 — 6:44 PM EDT

New music is on the way from Solange Knowles.

The singer’s fourth studio album, A Seat at the Table, will be released Friday, she announced on social media.

The album is Knowles’ first since she released True in 2012. A Seat at the Table was written by Solange and features guest appearances from Lil’ Wayne, Q-Tip, The Dream, and her sister Beyoncé’s former Destiny’s Child collaborator, Kelly Rowland.

Knowles describes the upcoming album as “a project on identity, empowerment, independence, grief, and healing.” On her 30th birthday in June, Knowles announced on Instagram she had completed the album after three years and called it her “most proud body of work.”

“I say all of that to say…don’t eveeer let anyone write your story for you,” she continued in her post. “They can talk, they can doubt, and they can say what they wanna, but only you have the words to narrate this ting we call life.”

Along with the album, Knowles has created a poetry book of lyrics and photos with the same name, which is available on her website.

My Album, A Seat At The Table, will be released this Friday September 30th.
Visit https://t.co/s5tfNaqtt7 to experience the digital book… pic.twitter.com/lOWTzrfeyX

— solange knowles (@solangeknowles) September 27, 2016

I've never been too crazy about her voice, but her creativity is extremely impressive and inspiring. I love her drive to stay true to who she is instead of conforming to the norm. I'm definitely going to check out this new album.

I'm psyched but I agree the guest list worries me. Then again take a look at how long the track list is:

A Seat at the Table Track List

1. "Rise"
2. "Weary" featuring Tweet
3. "Interlude: The Glory Is in You"
4. "Cranes in the Sky"
5. "Interlude: Dad Was Mad"
6. "Mad" Featuring Lil Wayne, Moses Sumney and Tweet
7. "Don't You Wait"
8. "Interlude: Tina Taught Me"
9. "Don't Touch My Hair" featuring Sampha
10. "This Moment" featuring Devonté Hynes and Lu
11. "Where Do We Go" featuring Sean Nicholas Savage
12. "Interlude: For Us By Us"
13. "F.U.B.U." featuring The-Dream, BJ the Chicago Kid and Tweet
14. "Borderline (An Ode to Self Care)" featuring Q-Tip
15. "Interlude: "I Got So Much Magic, You Can Have It" featuring Kelly Rowland and Nia Andrews
16. "Junie"
17. "Interlude: No Limits"
18. "Don't Wish Me Well"
19. "Interlude: Pedastals"
20. "Scales" featuring Kelela
21. "Closing: The Chosen Ones"

True was alright, LOSING YOU WAS MY JAMM. St Hadley's was a very good album as well, and was better than Sha Sha Fierce. I think Beyonce leared to be more real recently and has made better albums but I wish Solange success. Her last two have been really good.

nextedition said:

True is n amazing album. Very different from what is out there. Loved that one. Hope this one will be just as good, but seeing the guestlist, i wont have big expectations.

Ditto all of this. I really liked True with its likeably odd vibe, but it did seem that it was Dev Hynes's creative input that made it what it was. Though he seems to have a guest spot on the new one, I don't see anything to suggest that he's had such a controlling hand in the process this time around, and that's a shame.

Who knows? Maybe whatever creative talent they got in after he jumped ship has helped them craft a winner. I'll give it a listen, anyway, and keep my fingers crossed.

CynicKill said:

I'm psyched but I agree the guest list worries me. Then again take a look at how long the track list is:

A Seat at the Table Track List

1. "Rise"
2. "Weary" featuring Tweet
3. "Interlude: The Glory Is in You"
4. "Cranes in the Sky"
5. "Interlude: Dad Was Mad"
6. "Mad" Featuring Lil Wayne, Moses Sumney and Tweet
7. "Don't You Wait"
8. "Interlude: Tina Taught Me"
9. "Don't Touch My Hair" featuring Sampha
10. "This Moment" featuring Devonté Hynes and Lu
11. "Where Do We Go" featuring Sean Nicholas Savage
12. "Interlude: For Us By Us"
13. "F.U.B.U." featuring The-Dream, BJ the Chicago Kid and Tweet
14. "Borderline (An Ode to Self Care)" featuring Q-Tip
15. "Interlude: "I Got So Much Magic, You Can Have It" featuring Kelly Rowland and Nia Andrews
16. "Junie"
17. "Interlude: No Limits"
18. "Don't Wish Me Well"
19. "Interlude: Pedastals"
20. "Scales" featuring Kelela
21. "Closing: The Chosen Ones"

Meh, when there's too many interludes it annoys me. I'm still going to check out the album anyway though.

Q TIP is very buried in the mix on that track...

Mad ft. L'il Wayne:

http://www.hotnewhiphop.c...71451.html

Um....this is a really good album, y'all....Bravo Solange.....

Yeah the reviews are overwhelmingly enthusiastic.

She is way more talented and interesting than Beyonce. I like what I have heard on the album so far and I also like that she is not a follower and I actually like her tone I think its quite pretty.

This album contains more originality than anything her sister has attempted in years. Yeah, I said it.

The vibe and video reminds me of Corinne Bailey Rae.

i like the album alot, not crazy about the videos.i love the laid back soulful vibe of the album and i like that she is singing the songs and not doing that annoying rap/sing/talk thing her sister has fell in love with. well done solange.

The album is very smooth like coffee but firm and stern in lyrical content. There is alot of pro african american talk. Quotes from her mother and Master P and Baby in and out about succeeding despite the challenges against them as a minority stuck out. Its a deepy personal album, however this being said it alienates audiences in spots to an extent. There are well done musical elements and production, Raphael Saddiq did a very good job with the balance between using drum machines and live instrumentation. Well done. Its not a classic, but a firm statement made on her own.

While appreciate that Solange tries to be some what creative with her music. However, her "quirky" brand seems very fake. Some of these videos seems like she is trying way to hard to be different and I don't think she is all that original. I hear some people calling Solange innovative, But why? What she tries to do is no different from what Erykah Badu, Janelle Monae, D Angelo does and they do it way better.

Great album and this is not new for Solange. She always was a bit more Neo-soul alternative. Hell she covered the damn Dirty Projectors.

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I hear you and don't disagree. However, I disagree with calling Solange innovative or original when this type of music has been going on since the 70's and even some 90 acts continue to do it now.

avajane said:

Was hoping she had written some songs on her own instead of having so many cowriters, nonetheless it's a great album.

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Tried to buy it on CD this weekend, and no dice. Does this album exist in the real world?

Number one album and no discs So that was all streaming to get it to #1?

Cinny said:

Tried to buy it on CD this weekend, and no dice. Does this album exist in the real world?

Number one album and no discs So that was all streaming to get it to #1?

Its available at Electric Fetus here in Minneapolis. Maybe no Canada release? I see it says release for a November date...but I physically seen it..held it and picked it up there. I know I'm not dreaming unless it was CD-R inside lol

paisleypark4 said:

Cinny said:

Tried to buy it on CD this weekend, and no dice. Does this album exist in the real world?

Number one album and no discs So that was all streaming to get it to #1?

Its available at Electric Fetus here in Minneapolis. Maybe no Canada release? I see it says release for a November date...but I physically seen it..held it and picked it up there. I know I'm not dreaming unless it was CD-R inside lol

Okay well I have also seen The Life Of Pablo on vinyl but I know that's not legit.