based singer-songwriter and guitarist Meg Baird has shared a video for 'Will You Follow Me Home?'. It's from her new album 'Furling', out January 27, her first solo record since 2015’s 'Don't Weigh Down the Light'. The mysterious London collective Sault have returned with a brand new single ‘Angel’, produced by SAULT frontman Inflo, featuring vocals from Jamaican artist Chronixx.
Mysterious UK-based new-soul group Sault have released their new album 'NINE'. The album is going to be available to stream, download, and purchase for 99 days, meaning till the end of September. You can grab a free download of the album over on their website and it’s also available to purchase and stream on Bandcamp.
PopMatters made a selection of new artists who are expected to brake quite big quite soon (for some it had actually already started to happen). Among the selected there are: Polaris music award winner Backxwash; indie-rock foursome Porridge Radio; critically highly acclaimed Sault; Moscow all-female prog/post-punk girls Lucidvox; genre-defying Bartees Strange.
A wee bit early in the year, Rough Trade has announced their 2020 Albums of the Year list, with Hazel English on spot No. 20, and Sault at the top. This year's best album is 'Untitled (Black Is)' because it "delivers equal parts grace and charge, manoeuvring through disparate sub-genres to create a magnificent medley of exaltation. Rarely has there been an artistic statement this stirring, this staggering, this powerful".
Full list:
20. Hazel English - 'Wake Up!'
19. Working Men’s Club - 'Working Men’s Club'
18. Oklou - 'Glamour'
17. Thurston Moore - 'By The Fire'
16. Tom Misch + Yussef Dayes - 'What Kinda Music'
15. Caribou - 'Suddenly'
14. Idles - 'Ultra Mono'
13. Osees - 'Protean Threat'
12. Waxahatchee - 'Saint Cloud'
11. Cornershop - 'England Is A Garden'
10. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - 'Sideways to New Italy'
9. Porridge Radio - 'Every Bad'
8. bdrmm - 'Bedroom'
7. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - 'Viscerals'
6. Dream Wife - 'So When You Gonna'
5. Jarv Is - 'Beyond The Pale'
4. Laura Marling - 'Song For Our Daughter'
3. Rina Sawayama - 'Sawayama'
2. Phoebe Bridgers - 'Punisher'
1. SAULT - 'Untitled (Black Is)'
"'Untitled (Rise)' hardly yields highlights because the quality never wavers... It manages to be as lyrically unflinching as the music is compelling... You’d call it the album of the year if its predecessor wasn’t just as good" - Guardian's Alexis Petridis writes in a review of Sault's new album, anonymous neo-soul-funk band's second double album in just over 12 weeks, and their fourth in 18 months. The new album is "more obviously dancefloor-focused – its influences shifting from house to disco, from the perspiration-soaked post-punk funk to smooth 80s boogie, from sorrow and soothing to empowerment and resistance".
BC's selection is different from the most other big outlets, plus we like BandCamp, so here it is, their 100. The top 10 - mostly albums that others don't feature: 10. False - 'Portent' 9. Helado Negro - 'This Is How You Smile' 8. Ex Hex - 'It’s Real' 7. Jamila Woods - 'LEGACY! LEGACY!' […]
