GIGSoup Reviews Salt Ashes Performance at Her Album Launch Party
Electronic singer-songwriter Salt Ashes released her self-titled debut album last month (July 15, 2016) via Radikal Records. She celebrated the release of her album with an album launch party, which took place at Birthdays in London on Tuesday, July 26th. GIGSoup was there to capture the entire performance and gave a great review of her performance. “She can channel the energy in a room and knows how to get the crowd eating from the palm of her hand,” says GIGSoup. Check out some of their live review below, but be sure to head over to GIGSoup.co.uk to read the full review of the show.
Salt Ashes is good live. Actually, she’s very very good live. An album like ‘Salt Ashes’ requires a real stage presence to pull it off, and she has it, and then some. Supported by her band – Cheryl Pinero on bass,Jonny Coote on guitar and Jason Mallet on drums and keys – she opened with an explosive ‘If You Let Me Go’ which set the high energy pace the rest of the gig was to take.
There’s an intoxicating atmosphere that’s created when a natural performer and quality songs meet a live environment, and this was the magic that Salt Ashes channeled. If anything, the live performance was even better than the album, and the album is excellent. Yet where the album is slick and polished, the live show is raw, a little more rock than expected, and pulsating with energy in every note.Salt Ashes wears her influences on her sleeve – there’s plenty of times live where Kate Bush is in the room, Robyn, a little bit Stevie Nicks. She’s impossibly watchable, and her voice managed to be both incredibly strong and at times, impossibly delicate. As the room got hotter and sweatier, the crowd were captivated, singing along lines like “I’ll be whatever you want me to be, just need you to need me.” The pulsing coloured lights and infectious energy made the venue feel both smaller and bigger at the same time, and the packed room definitely didn’t feel at all big enough to contain sound of this size.
This is music that’s going places and she’s steering it where she wants it. There’s going to be no stopping this girl, at least, that’s what I hope. The music is there, and if her performing chops are anything to go by, the only way is up.
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“Salt Ashes” is now available for purchase in record stores nationwide, on Amazon, iTunes, Bandcamp, Google Play, and in the Radikal Records web-store. It is also available for streaming on Spotify.
