Sault - What's the story?

It's out today. Feels relatively inessential in comparison to her other albums on first listen, but was pleasant enough.

Honestly, Cleo Sol in lighter-than-air low-key mode is just what I need right now...

definitely much lower-key than her previous albums but it's still gorgeous and there's a lot to like here

Idk but this album cured my hangover

Yeah, this is absolutely gorgeous

what is out?

new cleo sol album, heaven

oh ok i see. everything on the sault thread has to be so cryptic!

https://x.com/cleosol/status/1704909623340183837?s=46&t=sn6lKgL5fqIUPSTSTL89kQ

(tweet from cleo sol saying gold out on friday)

Cleo Sol getting in on the Sault profusion magic:

https://www.twitter.com/cleosol/status/1705237268045181230

Wait what

Heaven is good. Probably too slight but honestly Inflo and her make such a good team. Everything sounds perfect, it’s a breeze.

surprise second cleo sol album out today!

i heard a rumor that all the music on Sault albums is played by Banksy, Damon Albarn, and Emma Bunton in a banana suit. or wait, maybe that was Nicky Wire in an Emma Bunton suit...

gold is pretty much heaven pt. 2, similarly low-key but it's so lovely

Yeah. Think the album will reward repeated listening but Life Will Be one of the highlights on first listen

Haven't listened to Gold yet, but digging Heaven. Great vibes, little Joni-like in places.

"golden child" is hitting a sweet spot lately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-spq4pVW_Dw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqXO2mmESg0

A live show coming

https://www.instagram.com/p/C0EMqC5NooI/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Bets on it being a performance similar to Gorillaz? shadows behind screens

Or Inflo drumming with no lights on him.

long preview of a new song here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0WHnqxtTaL/

presumably from the new album (titled acts of faith?) they're performing live on the 14th: https://www.instagram.com/p/C0oeK4LtNme/

they're also teasing future shows: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0odyS1NO_-/

they're going to perform 5 in new york, nine in london, black is in los angeles, rise in canada, 11 in germany, air in paris, and earth in africa. guessing they haven't fully figured out the details yet lol

Omg clips of this show look amazing!

Bets on it being a performance similar to Gorillaz? shadows behind screens

looks like there was a bit of this but also they all had their faces covered?

doesn't seem like they played new material but it appears to have been a real production, wow

i hope someone recorded the whole thing

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fk15f1xglic6c1.png%3Fwidth%3D3007%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D28251532747f32eca6494c161b91a7bcc958f193

seems like they played an orchestral set, then the new album acts of faith, and then a set covering their entire career, wow. "fear no man" might be the little simz song i guess? no idea what "ever so lonely" or the africa section are.

the song they previewed here: https://www.instagram.com/saultglobal/reel/C0WHnqxtTaL/ seems to be "act 6 - lessons"

Ok wasn’t expecting this setup for the concert. I’m so jealous for those who went it looks like a great setlist and a really cool vibe

https://x.com/fakeHARTHUR/status/1735382279923306670?s=20

the whole thing seems to be ridiculously ambitious

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C02OilBI0Yz/%0A%0AHow%20are%20they%20not%20losing%20money?%20For%20the%20amount%20of%20audience%20%C2%A3100%20per%20person%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20seem%20to%20cover%20the%20insanity%20of%20the%20set%20+%20crew,%20orchestra,%20choreographed%20performers%E2%80%A6.

Wtf my text got inside the link…

Anyways

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C02OilBI0Yz/

This looks insane. Idk how they are not losing money with this? The set, crew, amount of performers and planning seems like it wouldn’t get covered by the audience volume and £100 sounds like a bargain for what they did here.

yeah just completely absurd. i hope that they're going to release an official video of this or something

Whaaaaaaaaat

the fuck

Bizarre. Like a deconstructed version of Kendall Roy's 40th.

you can probably guess what i think of this lmao

who would have thought a band that is all boutique gimmicks would go down the punchdrunk theatre/secret cinema route eh

no one would care about the gimmicks if the music wasn't genearlly pretty good-to-great

That live setup is more than a gimmick. That’s bonkers.

yeah, i don't care about all the release gimmicks & secrecy but this is a genuinely impressive wild spectacle

So this is what you can do with some Adele royalties and a vision? How does a mid-level act pull the resources for all this together?

I very much wish my first thought upon seeing photos of this wasn't "who funded this" but these are cynical times

Insane spectacles with mysterious funding? Progression to a religious cult is nearly complete.

https://www.facebook.com/gillespeterson/posts/pfbid0LQMWW4CQbmFGhda24oMBuWCRJZBRxDjdb2ZmHpXcGqMjqKKPG58st3qFv4w3obuZl

Yeah got to agree in the end the music is what makes it all work and judging by the videos of the performance they sound amazing live. Cleo Sol in particular is a great vocalist.

anyone familiar with their music knows they take their craft seriously, all the stage production and extra stuff is fun imo

I'd like to see whoever just decided to chill back in the room with the dude and the TV.

from the Giles Peterson FB post: This hasn’t ever been done on such grand scale from the private sector.
Any talk of ripping off the fans couldn’t be further from the truth - the cost of putting on this happening wasn’t about cash it was about Myth…

It's such a throwback to a different time and economy where a performer can leverage the success of their musical vision to do all this extra stuff. With the extra stuff being weird.

https://www.facebook.com/gillespeterson/posts/pfbid0LQMWW4CQbmFGhda24oMBuWCRJZBRxDjdb2ZmHpXcGqMjqKKPG58st3qFv4w3obuZl

Yeah got to agree in the end

is there anything in the post besides bendy's quote?

Oh sorry I was xposting ufo