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10.0
90823
10.0 |
NOW
The R&B singer/songwriter's excellent third album is full of richness and complexity
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10.0
91782
10.0 |
The Arts Desk
A luscious, absorbing album – but if you're not its intended audience, you'd better be ready for the questions it raises
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9.2
91167
9.2 |
Gig Soup
ASATT is a hugely important record in the continuing dialogue on the experience of black people in our modern time
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9.2
90691
9.2 |
AU Review
A record that, in an age of surprise releases and visual albums, stands strong in its subtlety and narrative
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9.1
90692
9.1 |
Pretty Much Amazing
You won’t pin her down on the first, second, or third listen, but each listen will give you a better understanding as to why you never will
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9.0
90777
9.0 |
musicOMH
One thing that makes A Seat At The Table so powerful is the intensely personal touch that Solange infuses each song with
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9.0
90903
9.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Solange with an expansive mix of features and co-producers, continues a legacy of Black cultural production that is not just self-referentially critical, but peaks in spiritual and emotional transcendence
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9.0
91023
9.0 |
God Is In The TV
The subdued nature of the songs means that they take a few listens to hit home, but once they do, it’s obvious that this stunning and vital record is one of the year’s best
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9.0
90694
9.0 |
Exclaim
A Seat demands a careful listen, and rewards it richly. This is Solange's strongest album to date
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9.0
90715
9.0 |
Loud And Quiet
If I were you, I would stop what I were doing and listen to this record. Now
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9.0
90690
9.0 |
The 405
In the face of a rising death toll and election season, A Seat At The Table is an urgent thematic monument
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9.0
90822
9.0 |
All Music
A cathartic yet poised album, one that weighs a ton and levitates
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9.0
92042
9.0 |
Mixmag
Her finest, and most topical, yet
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8.8
91637
8.8 |
Earbuddy
I don’t know that this is the best pop album of the year, but it is a tight race
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8.7
90687
8.7 |
Pitchfork
Stunning, a thematically unified and musically adventurous statement on the pain and joy of black womanhood
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8.0
90688
8.0 |
Rolling Stone
In a volatile world increasingly defined by the brash and the crude, Solange's packaging of brutal honesty in tender, harmony-rich murmurs is both beautiful and radical
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8.0
90693
8.0 |
The Observer
An intensely personal testament to black experience and culture
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8.0
90779
8.0 |
The FT
The singer explores themes of prejudice and blackness with a deft soprano voice and psychedelic funk and soul
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8.0
90787
8.0 |
Crack
It’s this sense of directness, throughout A Seat At The Table, that makes the distinction between wanting and needing to listen to her work
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8.0
90798
8.0 |
Beardfood
Quality, honest, smooth R&B that makes you bob your head as much as it makes you think. Impressive
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8.0
90748
8.0 |
DIY
Take a seat at the table, open your mind and let Solange tell her truth. It’s worth it
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8.0
91087
8.0 |
Clash
An expertly-curated, a near-perfect record that serves as a timely, musical manifesto on how to be black and proud
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8.0
91303
8.0 |
PopMatters
Daunting and at times exhausting, A Seat at the Table is still an undeniably important work
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7.5
90689
7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
No longer stuck orbiting her superstar sister or so doggedly trying to escape that orbit, Solange has found her space
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6.0
90945
6.0 |
The Independent
It’s a pleasant change to encounter an R&B album which acknowledges a world beyond romantic cliche
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