When I Get Home, Solange's fourth album, arrived on Tuesday (March 5) and takes the singer back to a Houston of the mind. In a T Magazine interview the previous autumn, she described the making of the record as a return to that imagined city.

Pitchfork's review notes that the album is not a literal reconstruction of the past but a future memory of the city. See-sawing bass booms from phantom slabs, while synthesizers and samples ricochet off tall, empty spaces.

Three years after A Seat at the Table, Solange ditches traditional song structure and world-weary lyrics for a sonically and thematically ambiguous record that feels freer and less burdened by the white gaze. Songcraft and production sit at the centre of the work.