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Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams
''Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams'' is the second studio album by American R&B singer Solange Knowles, released August 26, 2008, on Polydor Records and Music World. Recording during 2005 to 2008, Knowles was heavily influenced by the "Motown Sound" of the 1960s and 1970s during the album's conception, prompting her to work with several vintage-style producers and songwriters such as Jack Splash, Cee-Lo Green, Mark Ronson, and former Holland–Dozier–Holland composer Lamont Dozier. Exploring the lyrical theme of independence, it also incorporates elements of downbeat and electronic music that she had familiarized herself with on previous trips to Europe.
Deviating from the R&B and dance-pop of Knowles' debut album, ''Solo Star'' (2002), ''Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams'' featured promotion that aimed at an "intellectual, backpacking, coffee shop, digital kid" audience.〔(Buy New Music. Buy Old Music. Just Buy Something. » SOULBOUNCE.COM ). SoulBounce. August 25, 2008. Retrieved on 2011-05-27.〕 The album debuted at number nine on the US ''Billboard'' 200 chart, selling 46,000 copies in its first week, and spawned three singles that attained chart success as number-one ''Billboard'' Dance hits. Upon its release, ''Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams'' received generally positive reviews from most music critics. , it has sold 138,000 copies in the United States.
==Background==
Knowles had been working on her second studio album on and off since 2005 following her return home to Houston, Texas, and her divorce from Daniel Smith, with whom she had lived following the birth of their son Daniel Julez in October 2004.〔 The follow-up to the critical and commercial disappointment of 2003's ''Solo Star'' was preceded by Knowles's move from Columbia to Geffen Records in late 2007. Knowles was heavily influenced by Motown girl groups such as The Supremes and The Marvelettes, and by her mother Tina, a one-time member of the 1960s harmony group The Veltones, who used to play music by the likes of Dusty Springfield and Martha Reeves to her. Knowles decided to distance herself from the teen pop and dance-pop-oriented R&B sound mainly associated with her previous effort, ''Solo Star''.
Willed to create a concept album revolving around her growth as a musical artist instead, she eventually got into the idea of a "sweet, soulful record () based around the Sixties and Seventies, telling stories of where I have been the last couple years."〔 Also borrowing elements from downbeat and electronic music she discovered on recent trips to Europe, her vision of the album eventually resulted into a mixture that Knowles has described as a "'60s/70s vintage soul record with hints of electronica." In an interview with ''Billboard'' magazine, Geffen Records chairman Ron Fair said of the album prior to release, "Her record is totally bananas ... It's not what people would expect from her. The music is more electric and international. She's in her own lane."
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