Reconstruction,Repetition, and Return in Solange’s When I Get Home

In Solange’s Houston, daughters speak through the words of their mothers while Black cowboys gallop through downtown skyscrapers at high noon. DJ Screw hangs like summer heat; Scarface rises like fog. The voices of poets and activists climb in through the window. In Solange’s Houston, places become patterns, sounds spiral into themselves, and above all is her voice: repeating and repeating.