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Emerging Artist Salt Ashes Featured on Clash

Emerging electronic singer-songwriter Salt Ashes has been featured on renowned entertainment magazine / outlet Clash, where she discusses a few of her musical influences. These musical drew inspiration for Salt Ashes’ self-titled debut album, which was a five year labor of love. Check out some of Clash’s feature below.

Salt Ashes spent five years working on her debut album, five years channelling her life into music. And now it’s here. Self-titled, the Brighton-raised artist’s debut album is available right now, a complex fusion of twisting, turning autobiography and supple, ever-evolving production.

Reminiscent of Madonna’s imperial pop phase, or even Kate Bush at her most direct, the record has won plenty of fans and admirers.

Clash is entranced, and invited Salt Ashes to display a few of her influences…

‘Miracles’ is one of the first disco records I fell in love with, with ‘Hold Tight’ being my favourite track off the album. To me, a great song will make you cry, dance or want to sing and this makes me want to dance every time. Diva Gray’s vocals on this are so smooth and effortless over a undeniably funky track. I adore that bass line through the verse and when the guitar line comes in on the chorus it’s hard not to want to move. The whole record is so relevant to music that’s being released today. I put this on when I’m getting ready for a night out.


I did a cover of this song when I first started out as I love it so much. It’s dark, epic and moody which sums up the bigger side of my songwriting. I love how driven the lead synth make this song feel. This track tells me it’s OK to be quirky and dark; “Black Celebration… I’ll drink to that”. ‘Black Celebration’ is also my favourite album from Depeche Mode.


This song makes me want to cry every time I hear it especially now because it reminds me of an ex-boyfriend of mine. But, like I said I want songs to move me in some way. I adore Jeff Buckley’s voice and the freedom he has with it. I listened to him as well as Kate Bush when I was discovering and learning about my voice and how to let it do what it wants to. Lyrically he has also really inspired me… I just wish we could hear what he would be creating today. “She is the tear that hangs inside my soul forever” – Kills me.

For more of Salt Ashes’ musical influences and for more from Clash, visit: clashmusic.com

Salt Ashes self-titled debut album  is now available for purchase in record stores nationwide, on AmazoniTunesBandcamp, Google Play, and in the Radikal Records web-store. It is also available for streaming on Spotify.

Brand new mixes of the lead single can be found on ‘Save It (UK Mixes)’ which is available now for digital purchase on iTunesBandcamp, and Beatport. It is also available for streaming on SoundCloud.