Multi-artist, Ela Minus announces her new album, DIA, will arrive on January 17, 2025 via Domino records. Ahead of the LP’s arrival, Minus shares its new single/video “Broken.” The album Follows her 2020 debut, acts of rebellion. After three years of toting snippets of songs around her native Colombia, her briefly adopted Mexico, and her series of rented apartments and hotel rooms across North America and Europe, Ela thought ​​DIA was finally complete. And then, she thought back to acts of rebellion and recognized her lyrics hadn’t been honest enough. They’d exposed her surface and not herself. This time, she wanted to go deeper. DIA was mixed by Marta Salogni and mastered by Heba Kadry.

She began by changing the setting—an outpost in California’s Mojave Desert, a month-long hotel and small studio stay in Los Angeles, forays back to New York, a Puget Sound-side vista near Seattle, Mexico City, and finally London, all places where time seemed to move at different speeds, not only inspiring the music to move in different directions, but also prompting her to consider what she had to play and say about her life so far. Late one night while working from a rented cabin in the mountains of Mexico, she stumbled upon a chord progression that she knew would launch the record. DIA opener “ABRIR MONTE.” Ela comments, “‘ABRIR MONTE’ is a phrase commonly used where I’m from, referring to the act of opening paths through dense foliage. I’ve always loved the poetry of it. That is what making this record felt like, opening new paths inward and outward, continuing to delve further through unexplored territory.

In support of her album, Ela will be joining Caribou on their 2025 EU/UK Tour, and will support Floating Points at the annual ADE Amsterdam Dance Event at the iconic Melkweg venue. This follows recent performances at Four Tet’s All Dayer, Field Day, Sónar, MUTEK, and Brooklyn’s Knockdown Center. This fall, Synth History is also launching an ongoing and in depth docu-series on Ela’s story and music. Ela recently launched www.forthebirds.xyz, a platform where fans can write to Ela, and she writes back, covering personal and technical topics or whatever approach grabs her interest.

Ela Minus
DIA
Tracklist

1. ABRIR MONTE
2. BROKEN
3. IDOLS
4. IDK
5. QQQQ
6. I WANT TO BE BETTER
7. ONWARDS
8. AND
9. UPWARDS
10. COMBAT

Ela Minus 2024-2025 Tour Dates

Wed. Oct.16 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg (ADE) ^
Sat. Oct. 19 – Paris, FR @ From Our Minds / FVTVR (Art Basel) – DJ set
Sat. Dec. 14 – Berlin, DE @ Silent Green (OPIA)
Mon. Feb. 3 – Paris, FR @ Zenith *
Tue. Feb. 4 – Luxembourg, LX @ Rockhal *
Wed, Feb. 5 – Utrecht, NL @ Tivoli *
Thu. Feb. 6 – London, UK @ Roundhouse *
Fri. Feb. 7 – London, UK @ Roundhouse *
Sat. Feb. 8 – London, UK @ Roundhouse *
Sun. Feb. 9 – Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy *
Mon. Feb. 10 – Bristol, UK @ Bristol Beacon *
Tue. Feb. 11 – Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique *
Wed. Feb. 12 – Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique *
Fri. Feb. 14 – Berlin, DE @ Velodrom *
Sun. Mar. 30 – Bogotá, Colombia @ Estéreo Picnic

* = supporting Caribou
^ = supporting Floating Points

Pre-order DIA HERE