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3020555, RE: The vocalist IS cleo sol?
Posted by Hitokiri, Tue Nov-26-19 03:32 PM
>Also after Cleo's amazing EP last year I thought she was in
>the running for an album release in 2019.. Sault must be it

Maybe not. She wiped her instagram, which artists normally do leading into an album roll-out.

But the Spotify bio basically confirms it to be her:

Sault are an R&B-rooted collective whose releases across 2019 orbit Adrian Younge's retro-modern psychedelic soul, Rip Rig + Panic's rambunctious post-punk funk, and genre-crossing Nigerian obscurities dredged up by specialist reissue labels such as Now-Again and Soundway.

Presented anonymously, Sault appeared early in 2019 with "We Are the Sun" and "Don't Waste My Time," two singles that set up (and are featured on) the full-length 5, released that May. Only four months later, Sault returned with the ten-track 7. Dean Josiah, aka Inflo -- known best for having co-written Michael Kiwanuka's Ivor Novello Award-winning "Black Man in a White World," among other work with the Kooks, Jungle, and Little Simz -- has been credited as producer and songwriter of all the group's songs. Much of the material has been co-written by Cleopatra Nikolic, aka Cleo Sol (also a Little Simz collaborator). ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi