Sault - What's the story?

I don't want to spoil it so just gave a few seconds' listen to each preview but this sound potentislly right up there with '5' and '7' (love 'Untitled' but just not quite as much). Inflo is Midas but with a happy ending.

Somehow I convinced myself this was coming today, got me through the week.

Anybody heard anything anywhere about it?

Samples here:

https://www.instagram.com/saultglobal/

Confirmed out tomorrow September 18th!

Cannot *wait*!

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Five star review at the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/17/sault-untitled-rise-review

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great news! what a review.

Awesome. Still waiting on my delivery for the last one though!

Oh shit

"more obviously dancefloor-focused"

I like the sound of that

psyched

Still waiting on my delivery for the last one though!

mine arrived yesterday so hopefully en route.

psyched for tomorrow.

Indeed, I like the sound of this one.

Got my CDs of '5,' '7,' and 'Untitled (Black Is),' but not LP of the latter. Seems like they're reaching folks in the U.S. now-ish.

I would *love* for "18 September" to mean midnight, GMT, so I could get this in two hours...

it’s on spotify here (australia)

Yeah, that's pretty much how new releases work globally, so you should look for it!

xp

I guess that's assuming you are on gmt time. It should be out by midnight on your local time zone.

Oh, sorry--I'm EST (US East Coast) so was hoping it'd be 12 midnight where Sault are based, and hence 7:00pm my time. I'll just have to wait till tomorrow ; )

Also I'm looking to buy it--so I'd guess for me it's whenever Sault decide to put it up on Bandcamp : )

Now?
https://saultglobal.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-rise

Now!

Sooo fucking good

On first listen, yes indeed. Loving all the Batucada style drums.

Really like this. Suspect the more spoken word tracks like You Know It Ain't will pall a bit over time, but still, I love this band.

Definitely more of a disco thing going on here, I'm digging it.

Slaps so hard! This fuckin band

how is this real?

this is brilliant!

I'm surprised because the bandname "Sault" always made me think this was a sludge-metal band or something!

I believe there is a metal band of some sort called
Sault

oh wow "strong" is such a great start

this is fantastic but especially the percussion!!! wow

I had this on a loop for hours last night while I was working, different songs leapt out at me each time through. Another great album.

Not only are they turning these out at remarkable pace but none of these records are even front-loaded imo. If anything I find myself latching more onto the tracks towards the end of them. Great strings on 'Scary Times'.

think this is pretty easily their best yet

'Untitled (Rise)' definitely feels... bigger, more "widescreen," less minimalist than earlier work (even than the first 'Untitled (Black Is)'), but without losing the edge and the spirit that makes Sault above-and-beyond almost anything else. It's polished without being "glossy".

On first couple listens last night, there were places where I was smiling and also felt like crying at the brilliance of what Inflo & Co are achieving. Feels like an immense celebration--and also synthesis--of African and Afrodiasporic music and collective strength. I want Sault to be the soundtrack of a radical reawakening of commonality between Black people everywhere and the breaking down of white hegemony... But even if it can't be that, they certainly have been one of the brightest lights in difficult days.

It's just unimaginable that they've created these four almost-perfect (yet highly eclectic) and singular albums in less than 24 months--especially these 24 months. AND that Inflo also played a huge role in shaping Little Simz' 'Grey Area,' Michael Kiwanuka's 'Kiwanuka,' and Cleo Sol's 'Rose In the Dark' during the same time! In 2019, he literally made 4 of my top 5 albums. And in 2020, 3 of my top 10...

I think this might be their best one yet. I’d probably rank them as:

Rise
5
7
Black is

But I love them all.

Loving the diy disco/Off the Wall feel so far (while keeping that dubby minimal Sault thing)

Feel very strongly that The Black and The Gold should have been the closing track. That thing is gorgeous.

wow absolutely loving this and something always held me back on the previous releases (I did like the Cleo Soul)

Yeah this is incredible. Best one yet and it is a very high bar. "Strong", "Fearless", "I Just Want to Dance", "The Beginning & the End" and "Free" are my highlights so far.

'7' remains closest to my heart--their most perfect front-to-back distillation. But even on just a couple listens, I'll put 'Untitled (Rise' up there with '5,' and 'Untitled (Black Is)' isn't far behind. All of them toward the very top of my favorite music of recent years, which have been my favorite years for new music since... the early 90s.

They have quickly become one of my favorite bands in years. I knew ‘5’ was something special when I first heard it but I wasn’t expecting they’d be 3 more albums in the same ballpark of quality and with such a short span between them.

Not a comparison in sound and this might sound completely off, but they remind me of Stereolab in how they seem to extract influence from some of the best sounds of previous decades into a charming sound of their own. While Stereolab seemed to extract mainly sounds of 60s and early 70s, Sault sound more indebted to the 70s and early 80s.

I can see the Stereolab comparison, in terms of their ability to synthesize/recall forebears without directly mimicking/reviving anyone. And in terms of being prolific-but-quailty.

Difference being I think Sault draws on a much wider musical realm--and drawing globally, and spanning at least 50s R&B, early 60s girl groups/soul/highlife, late 60s/early 70s funk/Afrobeat/Zamrock/Tropicalia/reggae, late 70s post-punk/disco/dub, early 80s boogie/pop, late 80s-mid-90s hip-hop, and much beyond...

well said moka. and definitely agreed about them being one of the best acts to come along in quite some time. i think the last "new" band that came out that i liked this much was king krule and that was nearly a decade ago!

new one is still too fresh, but after one listen it's just as good as anything else they've done.

Ha, yeah, there's certainly seems to be a Stereolab balance of being guided by a strong manifesto but without overthinking the actual music.

Just echoing what everyone else has said so far - this is fantastic and connecting with me much more than their previous one earlier in the year

so glad to have found this, wonderfully minimal, love the percussion recording

so glad to have found this, wonderfully minimal, love the percussion recording

― naked and sexually active alien (rip van wanko),

If you like minimal, wait till you hear '7' and '5'!