RECENT LISTENING #3

Solange, Royal Trux, Eddie Flowers & the Wax-Lip-Swamp-Dub, Earthen Sea, Marvin Gaye, Excepter, The Lost Domain, Frank Zappa

SOLANGE When I Get Home LP (COLUMBIA) Her 2016 album A Seat at the Table was so good, “Cranes in the Sky” (both song and video), “Junie,” “Don’t Touch My Hair,” the L’il Wayne guest appearance, all the spoken interludes, really a massive statement. Now, here’s a March 1, 2019 followup album, and after a couple listens, I gotta say it might be even better. It’s one of those ‘slightly more difficult’ follow-ups, the Neither Fish Nor Flesh to Seat at the Table’s Introducing the Hardline According To…, if you will; there isn’t a ‘hit single’ like “Cranes” that stands out; the music is slower-developing, moodier, richer, jazzier, more abstract, the kind of thing that takes time to digest, and I like what I wrote 6 months later on Instagram when the vinyl version was finally released and I was playing it over and over at home (the “you” being addressed here must be my 6-months-younger self): “Expansive 2019 masterpiece right here. If you’re too lost in its nested interludes, jazz-prog aside…