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baystateoftheart
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Age: 31
Location: Massachusetts 
- #4401
- Posted: 11/11/2025 03:09
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| Rhyner wrote: | (1)
A Seat At The Table (2016) by Solange 
Yeah, this is a nice album, I guess. For the most part. Before listening, seeing a track listing full of interludes scared me a bit, but as far as spoken word interludes go, the ones on this album are comfortably over on the benign side of that particular bell curve. They could have been much worse, but I'd still prefer if they weren't there. Yeah, yeah, I know they help to craft the theme/message of the album, but in my opinion they're a clumsy way of doing that. A little too on-the-nose. And they still pad the runtime of an album that I think would benefit from being much shorter.
My dislike of rap is well-documented, so I'll avoid mentioning Lil Wayne's feature except to say that it also could have been much worse.
As nice-sounding as this album is at any given point, I do think it goes on too long. To me, most of the tracks don't really stand out from the crowd. "Filler" is the term that comes to mind. And while the album is technically competent and all that, it doesn't, in my opinion, do anything to really go above and beyond in terms of, like, you know, personality or artistic expression or whatever. What I'm saying is...Solange strikes me as kinda bland. |
I largely agree with this take. I don't know why this is her album that gets all the acclaim, when this one is so much more interesting:
When I Get Home (2019) by Solange
I'm not sure if you'd like it more though, because there's a lot more hip-hop incorporated into the sound.
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Rhyner
soft silly music is meaningful magical
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Location: Utah
- #4402
- Posted: 11/11/2025 18:32
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| baystateoftheart wrote: | I largely agree with this take. I don't know why this is her album that gets all the acclaim, when this one is so much more interesting:
When I Get Home (2019) by Solange
I'm not sure if you'd like it more though, because there's a lot more hip-hop incorporated into the sound. |
I'll add it to my rather considerable to-listen list. I prefer its album cover to A Seat at the Table's, so if such things are any indication of the music within, that's a good sign.
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