If the previous album was the awakening of an R&B star, with its exquisite and silky sounds, as well as its references to some of the greats like Mary J. Blige and Sade Adu, now Solange has fallen in love with jazz. This is an homage to her hometown of Houston, Texas, of short and catchy songs with almost no spaces of silence between the tracks, closer perhaps to the jazzy music of Joni Mitchell from the mid-70s than to her sister singing at Coachella. There are loads of ideas going on, harmonies, melodies and styles gathered together in these 40 something minutes of music. There is hip hop and rap, of course, there’s even some drum and bass, but it’s the free form jazz of songs like the samples taken from the B side of the Beatles’ Abbey Road, that from the hallmark of this extraordinary work. And as far as invited stars are concerned there’s many: Pharrell is here producing some of the tracks, Don Blood Orange, Tyler the Creator ... and Solange's voice as a common thread through this musical Olympus. Can’t wait to see how this elegant album is going to be presented live. We'll be there.