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20 Questions With Salute: On Their Debut LP & Inclusion Riders Making Lineups ‘Less Tokenistic & More Like Promoters Give a F–k’
The Manchester-based producer's shimmering debut album, 'True Magic', includes collabs with Disclosure, Rina Sawayama, Sam Gellaitry and more.
Talking to Billboard over Zoom from London on a recent Friday afternoon, salute says these tedious finishing touches were the hardest part of making an album that emerged during writing sessions with friends at a massive house in the English countryside, where a No Social Media rule was put in place. A 14-track collection of shimmering, sometimes tough, occasionally sexy and always sleek music that fuses house, garage, synth and French touch, the album is the culmination of nine years worth of single and EP releases, a steadily growing profile and the connections the producer has made along the way. Following 2024 U.S. sets that included salute’s Coachella debut in April and a performance at the Four Tet & Friends festival in New York this May, True Magic will bring them back to the States this fall for a nine-date run that ends at III Points in Miami.
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