(Forever Living Originals)
The esteemed collective release five dazzlingly eclectic albums, melding rap, post-punk and modern classical composition
Since 2019, the revered collective Sault have offered a palimpsest of African, American and British black music history, with beautifully realised takes on R&B, jazz and psychedelic funk, doo-wop, trip-hop, symphonic soul, 1980s groove and soundsystem culture. But are these five new albums just proof that producer Inflo can’t be fussed with curation?
Aiir is a sequel to recent modern classical composition Air and is similarly pleasant if sometimes syrupy. Earth boasts Stronger, as good as their 2020 classic Wildfires, and brings polyrhythms and choral contributions. Its astonishing diadem, The Lord’s With Me, burns with the languorous intensity of 1970s experimentalists the Undisputed Truth.