Solange: "True"
Dec 31, 2017 19:45:05 GMT -5
Post by Live Your Life on Dec 31, 2017 19:45:05 GMT -5
Physical edition album cover, which was only sold at Opening Ceremony clothing stores:
This is Solange's only indie release to date, released in 2012. All songs were written and produced by Solange and Dev Hynes. This project is excellent. It's definitely my favorite project of hers to date.
Here's an Instagram post she wrote about its 5 year anniversary earlier this year:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BcFni7NhTAb
AllMusic gave the EP 3.5/5 stars:
Solange's first independent release, a seven-track EP for Grizzly Bear member Chris Taylor's Terrible label, follows the Top Ten album Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams. As the gap was four years in length, True naturally sounds significantly different -- not much like her loose, Day-Glo throwback soul of 2008. Written and produced with Dev Hynes (aka Lightspeed Champion and Blood Orange), the songs have a diaphanous new wave via synth funk sound that is much closer to Little Dragon than the Dap-Kings. The lyrics detail a busted relationship and provide aching, wistful, and frustrated contrast to the animated and slowly swaying backdrops. The mournful closing ballad "Bad Girls" features an unsurprisingly chunky bassline from Verdine White, yet the drum machine and slightly decayed surface make the whole thing sound more like a 1984 Mtume demo (not a knock). This is a promising prelude to Solange's third proper album.
