SAULT

Anticipation crackles for tonight’s debut live performance from Sault, the purposefully enigmatic collective centred around producer Dean Josiah Cover, AKA Inflo. Their discography – 11 albums in four years, five arriving in a single data dump a year ago – encompasses the kaleidoscope of Black music history, growing ever more spiritual and exploratory. Exactly which incarnation of Sault will materialise tonight: the sinewy garage-funk unit? The street soul artisans? The composers of diaphanous choral symphonies?The answer…

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,…

SAULT—the enigmatic project/supergoup helmed by super-producer Inflo and featuring R&B-soul singer Cleo Sol—have surprised us all with by dropping no fewer than five albums. There are, however, two catches: they’re only available for five days, and you have to guess the password.Including the somewhat divisive orchestral instrumental album, AIR, which was released in April this year, the new projects make 11 studio albums released since the outfit’s emergence in 2019. The first two albums, 5 and 7 were both released…