I mean, I’m assuming it’s a thing with a tiny label that was not at all prepared for the huge reception, but I’d love to see them get some better distribution.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 27 December 2020 23:35 (three years ago) link
it's also not always easy to get stuff pressed quickly esp if you're independent
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 27 December 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
Oh absolutely, I don’t blame the band or the label, I just feel bad for them because there is clearly a big demand right now. I know I’m not the only one hitting their bandcamp up several times a day hoping they announce some new pressings.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 27 December 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
I've heard some reviews on discogs pointing out that the pressing isn't great and that it sounds better played from a phone. Anyone who has the vinyls can confirm on the quality of the pressing? I have 5 and 7 and they sound great to me. I don't know if its better to wait to order these pair of 'Untitled' until they have sorted out the high demand.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 27 December 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
Hell, I’d settle for even CDs at this point, but those are sold out as well.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 27 December 2020 23:47 (three years ago) link
vinyl pressings sound good.
lead times for vinyl pressings are very, very long just now, not helped by covid outbreaks at pressing plants.
― stirmonster, Monday, 28 December 2020 00:44 (three years ago) link
wow, where are the plants? I'm actually surprised at the number of things that are getting pressed given the circumstances and the Apollo masters fire.
― 10percent Discocunt (jed_), Monday, 28 December 2020 02:20 (three years ago) link
The Apollo masters fire made no impact on European pressings. All Euro pressing plants I know of have the longest backlogs I've ever heard of due to a convergence of factors, and then Covid has just exacerbated that. I'd rather not mention specific plants.
― stirmonster, Monday, 28 December 2020 03:17 (three years ago) link
"...reviews on discogs pointing out that the pressing isn't great and that it sounds better played from a phone..."
I ordered the repressings(?) listed on Bandcamp and to my surprise the "**Shipping Mid Jan 2021**" vinyl arrived just after Santa (stateside no less).
Without perusing discogs for feedback on the non-black wax, I was just after saying to a friend that these black vinyl releases (some if not all pressed at Optimal) might be the quietest/cleanest new vinyl I've heard in ages.
Dynamics well present and well presented.
tl;dr, get them when/if you can.
The black vinyl of all four impresses with, by way of comparison, the 5 and 7 already in your library, slightly freer of non-distracting-but-not-unexpected-given-the-medium sonic artifacts.
― sombrerodetuned (sombrerodetune), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 22:14 (three years ago) link
finally getting into black is. dont hear ESG at all, unless you only have indie/post punk references and had to find something that sounded vaguely close. skipped a load of messages so no idea if dangermouse was involved, but def does have his 90s breakbeat sort of aesthetic. i know they are british, but the singer definitely doesnt sound british. or at least, what she is singing definitely sounds very american.
― candyman, Saturday, 16 January 2021 15:15 (three years ago) link
makes me think of king a bit tbh. or any number of neo/indie/alt soul voices. love her voice.
― candyman, Saturday, 16 January 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
if it isnt DM, its someone who is obviously a fan. def has that '90s plug in' vibe to the production.
― candyman, Saturday, 16 January 2021 15:22 (three years ago) link
danger mouse isn't involved, it's all produced & co-written by inflo. there are two lead singers and one of them, kid sister, is american. the other lead singer is cleo sol
― ufo, Saturday, 16 January 2021 15:28 (three years ago) link
inflo has worked on other stuff with danger mouse a fair bit though so there's your connection
― ufo, Saturday, 16 January 2021 15:30 (three years ago) link
also hear some shades of corinne bailey rae and lianne la havas.
― candyman, Saturday, 16 January 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link
One of their tracks (“Free”) is on the official Inauguration playlist
― one of the only artist who is genuine (morrisp), Saturday, 16 January 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
The first two records ('5' and '7') are more minimalist than the 'Untitled' records. Still not especially ESG-ish, but the comparisons stem from those records, not the newer ones.
― Soundslike, Saturday, 16 January 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
"i just want to dance" is definitely the most esg-ish thing on either of their 2020 albums
― boz conspiracy by toby hus (voodoo chili), Saturday, 16 January 2021 16:23 (three years ago) link
Yep the ESG bassline comparisons and the Jaki Liebezeit-style drums I mentioned are regarding 5 and 7. The Untitled records are more influenced by disco and funk than by post-punk and krautrock
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 16 January 2021 16:32 (three years ago) link
E.g: “Let Me Go”
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 16 January 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link
ont hear ESG at all, unless you only have indie/post punk references and had to find something that sounded vaguely close.
sorry but that is nonsense. 5 in particular definitely has tracks that have an echo of ESG (intentional or otherwise) in some of the basslines, the way the drums swing, the fills and how stripped down they are.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 16 January 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
On black is?
― candyman, Saturday, 16 January 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link
Read the post, the answer is right there.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Saturday, 16 January 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link
5 and 7 are the name of their first two albums in case you think we’re talking about track numbers?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 16 January 2021 22:24 (three years ago) link
investigating their other stuff. yes, i just want to dance does sound like ESG, my bad.
this album makes me think a bit of 4hero too actually.
― candyman, Sunday, 17 January 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
that's a good connection
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 January 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link
I prefer 5 and 7 to Rise and Black Is, mainly because I find 5 & 7 to be really fun and the spoken interludes in Rise and Black Is don't have replay value to me (this is true about spoken interludes or skits on any album in history, for me). I'd def like to pick these up whenever they get a repress, if they are of the quality the Cleo Sol album is, which I recently got. It was expensive as fuck to order from the US (I think it came to $60) but the pressing sounds amazing, the cover and booklet are beautiful.
― akm, Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
Head's up! All four getting a repress. Still not inexpensive but not gonna miss a chance to finally grab Rise aka best album ever on wax
www.strandedrecords.com/collections/sault?mc_cid=2658748e32&mc_eid=0f24ac7b12
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:28 (three years ago) link
if it isnt DM, its someone who is obviously a fan. def has that '90s plug in' vibe to the production
I was wondering what kept me at arm's length from these records and it turns out on reflection that it's this
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:34 (three years ago) link
I guess this is sort of a KeiyaA default thread -- she did a livestream last night tied in with the release of her album on vinyl; am watching the playback now and rather enjoying it. Anyway, back to Sault.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 March 2021 16:23 (three years ago) link
really falling in love with the Cleo Sol record now that spring has sprung -- the deep warmth that emanates from this record is exactly what I need right now
― winters (josh), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 20:46 (three years ago) link
Watching Zero on Netflix last night and Why Don't You featured very prominently in one episode.
Looking at Spotify I see it's got 20M plays, almost twice as many as Sault's most streamed song (Wildfires, 13M)
― groovypanda, Friday, 23 April 2021 08:26 (three years ago) link
Cleo's on the new Little Simz track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHGf6tmnLYE
― groovypanda, Friday, 7 May 2021 05:58 (three years ago) link
^ Gee, big spiffy arrangement on that thing!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 7 May 2021 09:52 (three years ago) link
(Okay, I now belatedly see that Simz's recent Introvert should have prepared me for this new emphasis. Intriguing!)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 7 May 2021 10:11 (three years ago) link
When Rise came out I was so excited, and in my enthusiasm convinced myself it was the best of the four. But I've been revisiting 5 and 7 this week and it's clear to me now that these first two albums actually tower over the subsequent two.
which is crazy because Rise and Black Is are phenomenal
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 9 May 2021 12:54 (three years ago) link
The brevity of the first two work in their favor. You could probably trim Rise back to an equally pleasing 35-40 minutes.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Sunday, 9 May 2021 13:29 (three years ago) link
!
Looks like there’s a new SAULT album incoming! pic.twitter.com/1yv5HNyQAl— Concrete Islands (@islandsconcrete) June 14, 2021
― Jeff W, Monday, 14 June 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link
OOF
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 14 June 2021 15:48 (two years ago) link
oh damn
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 14 June 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
Direct link: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQGrz3jngFs/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
― Jeff W, Monday, 14 June 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
― ufo, Monday, 14 June 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link
AOTY 2021
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 14 June 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link
Just you wait until FOUR comes out 12 weeks later.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 14 June 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
nice.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Monday, 14 June 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
I kind of hope the name indicates a return to the leaner sound of the first 2 albums
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 14 June 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQMWa1Fnkqx/
coming in 9 days but it's getting a dumb limited-time release as a gimmick
― ufo, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
okay that is annoying.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
unless maybe the album is filled with unlicensed samples or something. . . ?
it's going to be on streaming for the 99 days so i doubt it
― ufo, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link