Solange Knowles Covers Dirty Projectors
Solange Knowles, baby sister of you know who, is making her own name in the pop landscape. Her official debut album, T.O.N.Y. showed the Knowles family’s funkier, more retro side and now comes word that she’s gone indie rock. Brooklyn indie rock to be exact. Solange recently unveiled her remake of the Dirty Projector’s “Stillness is in the Move” (original Dirty Projectors version below). MTV approves:
She takes the original’s trippy groove, lays in a sample of Sou Mann & the Brothers’ “Bumpy’s Lament” and throws her own smooth croon over it. The result is somehow simultaneously a futuristic exploration and a supercool throwback, full of smokey sexiness and after-hours pomp.
It’s being reported that there’s no planned official release for the song and the posted version on pitchfork.com has been removed as requested by Universal Music. Given MTV’s glowing review, there’s a good chance a deal will be worked out. Hopefully llamas will make it in her version of the video.
