“I tried to run it away,” she muses later. “I tried to drink it away,” Solange sings at the top of the track. On “Cranes in the Sky,” one of several standouts from Solange’s new album, A Seat at the Table, it seems she’s working out those issues, running through a litany of solutions that didn’t work for her in the long run. Isolation is something you need to tackle head-on, to embrace the despair and figure out its cause. It’s a devastating feeling, one that you can’t assuage with drugs or material things. It’s easy to feel alone, especially in a world that moves so quickly.
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