Photo by Tim Walker
On Friday Solange released a beautiful new album in When I Get Home. It's a gorgeous and layered 19 tracks that you'll want to sit with for a while. Which is why it's impressive that, as Solange explains a new interview with i-D that discusses the making of the album, a majority of the tracks were recorded in one take.
There is plenty more to say about the album, but it's almost certainly best to hear it in Solange's own words. Read the whole interview over at i-D.What I love so much about recording this record was most of the songs are one-takes. We’d start from the top with me singing a melody and building out chords, just me and click track and then my boy John Key on the drums or keys and John Kirby on the synths. I would then go find the best three minutes of the fifteen. I actually tried to recreate some of my vocals, but the energy wasn’t the same and I had to surrender to that. This album isn’t about vocal performance or just words out loud. I tried to create everything I had to say with sonics and frequency. This is really about the way that I feel. Feelings.