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Solange Knowles

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Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams Reviews

Overall Rating
7

Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams

2008 | Geffen Records

13 Sources have reviewed this album

8.5/10

Entertainment Weekly

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The younger Ms. Knowles cooks up tasty variations on old-recipes. [5 Sep 2008, p.77]

8/10

Hot Press

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The various elements are spun like syrup round a spoon; creating a deliciously moreish concoction, the sort you’ll want to dip into time and again.

8/10

All Music Guide

In spots, it sags, and a couple tracks seem more like sketches than neatly bundled songs, yet it's one of the year's more entertaining and easily enjoyable R&B releases, fronted by someone who does not take herself all that seriously.

8/10

Dot Music

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Elsewhere the album could be either too relaxed or too eccentric for many. But it's a fine, rich and extremely likeable record, nonetheless, and it deserves to find its audience even without that famous surname.

7.5/10

Pitchfork

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It's not a case of Solange performing best when she jettisons her ambition, but rather her need to find a way to let her avant inclinations work with rather than against her pop instincts, and maybe the best way for that to happen is to let the forme

7/10

Slant Magazine

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Venturing off into the unknown plays well for Solange--the mix of organic, old-school instrumentation and more electronic elements makes for a loose, fun and reverent record.

7/10

Boston Globe

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This is such a smartly executed, classy set of songs that's miles away from the hoochie pop being turned out by young female R&B vocalists these days.... As long as she keeps things flowing and upbeat, things hum and only the two gauzy ballads (inclu

7/10

Hartford Courant

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Solange combines retro warmth and current cool in ways her more commercially successful sibling probably can't.

7/10

The New York Times

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This is a peppy album, rich with thumping horns, crisp percussion and light piano melodies. As homage, it’s impressive. But Solange can’t quite keep up.

7/10

Billboard

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On her sophomore set, Solange not only takes on a sound that differs from her pop-driven 2002 debut, but demonstrates that unlike her sister Beyoncé--who she vehemently refutes comparisons to on 'God Given Name'--she has no reservations about sharin

6.5/10

cokemachineglow

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Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams is as silly, day-glo, eccentric, and all over the place as its title.

6/10

The Guardian

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Sol-Angel is savvy R&B with a gloss you can check your reflection in, but it falls short of what she intended: to make the record Dusty Springfield or Minnie Riperton would have made, were they around in 2008.

5/10

Rolling Stone

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Solange simply doesn't have the pipes to pull off her songs, and her attempts at "mystical" psychedelic-soul (the six-minute-plus opus 'Cosmic Journey') are embarrassing.