Sault - What's the story?

brilliant.

Saw a short write-up about the new album in the latest New Yorker. They mentioned that Kid Sister is also part of the group in addition to Inflo and Cleo Sol. (Maybe that’s been mentioned upthread? I feel like ILM has mostly been focused on Inflo and Cleo.) I’m not familiar with her work but a quick look on Spotify, seems like she’s been around about a decade.

yeah kid sister is a known member but has probably been discussed less bc she hasn't really done much recently while inflo's been all over the place and there's this year's wonderful album from cleo. since she started working with inflo all she's released outside of sault is this track last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEfwqCnsRlo

the one other known contributor who no one's really discussed yet here is blk vnyl/kadeem clarke who has writing credits on a few tracks on black is and rise. i can't find that much about him but he produced "one life, might live" by little simz this year and he's played keys live for her and michael kiwanuka, so he's certainly part of that whole scene.

Getting some love on Bandcamp, which stands to reason as it's been in their top 8 sellers since its release:

https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/sault-untitled-rise-review?utm_source=notification

kid sister is the sister of one of the dudes from flosstradamus & did a song called "pro nails" with kanye like 13 years ago

I know Kid Sister was mentioned upthread, I think of her as doing the more shouty/post-punk type vocals?

Idk if I've said it but this is a very good Sault album, up there with the best Sault albums.

xp

Dang that Kid Sister track is a great Sault-not-Sault track

also prefigures the strings on the new record

DAMN what a track... If she puts out an (Inflo-produced) album this year, I'm declaring Sault & Co. the best thing in this fucked world. Might do anyway.

kid sister is the sister of one of the dudes from flosstradamus & did a song called "pro nails" with kanye like 13 years ago

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, October 1, 2020 2:39 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i was wondering if it was THAT kid sister haha, guess so.

she did a track with david banner that i shamefully loved circa 2008

rise is brilliant

it really is.

I had been sleeping on Sault, which was dumb of me. I've now come to my senses and bought all of their albums.

I wouldn't have thought they would work as lockdown listening but they totally do.

Liking 5 and 7 more than the Untitleds. It's all good though.

rise really is brilliant though

Aoty.

If there are end-of-the-year album lists this year...

I have to imagine Sault is going to make a lot of individual lists, and maybe some voted lists (with risk of vote-splitting between the two albums). Pretty amazing for a group (?) that has had almost no significant press/reviews, and has become beloved pretty much solely on the basis of word-of-mouth and just how intrinsically fantastic their music is.

Rise vinyl doormatting! Hope everyone who ordered is getting theirs. Perfect Friday evening listening.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CH8-3Z7n9lz/?igshid=197codjd5ysdn

Can confirm Pitchfork is still unclued: neither album auto-loads in their reader poll.

I suppose it only loads albums they reviewed through the year?

"Don't Waste My Time" spotted in an episode of Netflix's You. Wuuuut.

Up All Night has appeared in a few:

https://www.tunefind.com/artist/sault

We need to settle for around 4 tracks for Sault and 3 for Cleo Sol when nomming for the EOY polls or they wont make it due to all the vote slipping.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka)

we haven't sort this out, yet. wildfires beeing obv (?), for consideration: stop dem; sorry ain't enough; why we cry why we die

Could poll the tracks off the 3 albums and see which ones float to the top

Wildfires, Free, I Just Want To Dance, Little Boy

Wildfires is one of my top 10 songs of the year. I’d definitely pick that one. Dog latin’s pick seem to be the general favorites.

For Cleo Sol my personal favorite is “Rose in the Dark” but I think the most popular one is “why don’t you” - also an amazing song tbh.

So the newest one is completely sold out in all physical formats already? Awesome. Gotta say I love this new system of having to check bandcamp on just exactly the right days in order to buy a new album.

Have they been reupping stuff now and then? Or is that it?

Gotta say I love this new system of having to check bandcamp on just exactly the right days in order to buy a new album.

if you follow an artist you'll get notified.

Yeah, I do follow some. I just haven't checked Sault out yet, but all the year-end buzz got me curious. Liked what I heard and wanted to support them by ordering the CD, but that's gone already. Seems like not great timing with the EOY hype they're getting.

Would vote for Rose in the Dark but When I'm in Your Arms probably my fave xps

Ah, i see. i reckon they will repress.

i've got to know what's in that third panel, it's killing me. couldn't someone at least describe it?

ah, wrong thread.

lol, maybe they will sneak out a third album this year, but i doubt it

Hard Life is my choice, personally.

"strong", "i just want to dance" and "fearless" are my favs from them this year

"Fearless" is really special

"Fearless" is the track going in my end-of-year mix...

i have to go Wildfire for fav track this year

yup

Yeah I'd be kidding myself if it wasn't the one I'd vote for

that's my favourite from black is for sure

Rise is the better album but Wildfire is the highlight imho. That said I pretty much love all of the songs mentioned so far so I don’t think I would mind whatever song(s) places in the EOY poll.

All about "Son Shine" and "Her Light" here, though I won't insist on it

damn I just realized my post is the only measure of Keiyaa on ILM. This is in a similar vain as the new Sault but better imo: https://keiyaa.bandcamp.com/

― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix)

both amused and amazed by the coincidence of you bringing up Keiyaa's record - which is brilliant, it's high on my eoy list, but no better than (black is), imo- and just finishing reading an interview with her, where she makes kind of similar points to that thread of yours from a hundred years ago, about the marginalization of black music and black audiences in the US

Yeah that album’s great!!