But this fall, she released 'Losing You', a gleaming and spirited new song that transcended the labels she'd been assigned. Then she split with Interscope and resurfaced on the indie circuit, carting Jay-Z and her sister Beyoncé to Grizzly Bear concerts on the Williamsburg waterfront and offering up a cover of Dirty Projectors' 'Stillness Is the Move'. At cynical first glance, it seemed like Knowles was simply backtracking and rebranding, hoping to claim some available indie turf. When we heard from Solange Knowles four years ago, she was a major-label signee trying to find her footing on a conceptual and vintage-sounding album called SoL-Angel and the Hadley Street Dreams.
