salute, announces their new album True Magic will arrive on July 12th on Ninja Tune. Along with the news, the duo has shared new single “saving flowers,” a collaboration with Rina Sawayama. True Magic also features Disclosure, Empress Of, Karma Kid, Sam Gellaitry, and many more. Alongside the album’s summer release on digital streaming platforms, the project will also include a physical release on cassette, CD, and vinyl.

salute made their debut in Asia selling out shows in Seoul, Shanghai and Tokyo. The shows were b2b with Yung Singh and the Tokyo show saw Rina Sawayama show up as surprise guest when salute played album announce track “saving flowers” out to a crowd for the first time. The duo has also recently performed with Disclosure in Colombia and Berlin, Mall Gab in London, Hudson Mohawke in LA and supported Jungle on their US tour.

True Magic was a collaborative approach, renting a house in the countryside to work on the album with their peers. “I took a pop approach to the record,” says salute. “I went in quite blindly just with some loops and ideas but there’s much more of a focus on songwriting and collaboration on this album. In dance music there always seems to be this focus on doing everything yourself but I wanted to get a team around me to develop the ideas I had. One thing I’m really proud of is how organic the work with the collaborators is. I’ve managed to get such a breadth of amazing people on the record.”

Taking aesthetic and auditory inspiration from old Japanese car adverts, which salute spent hours trawling through YouTube archives to find, they developed a concept for the album of driving an old JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) car in a race called True Magic. “Watching old TV recordings my parents made on VHS led me to comfort watch old ad compilations on Youtube” they commented, “then eventually old car ads, and finally I stumbled upon old Japanese car ads through a rabbit hole.” This highly visual concept helped propel the sonics of the album forward and give the album a sense of driving momentum.

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True Magic
Ninja Tune

1. start
2. saving flowers (with Rina Sawayama)
3. reason (with Karma Kid)
4. lift off! (with Disclosure)
5. maybe it’s u (with Sam Gellaitry)
6. go! (with なかむらみなみ)
7. true magic, bonus round
8. one of those nights (with Empress Of)
9. move faster…
10. system
11. softly (with Léa Sen)
12. luv stuck (with piri)
13. perfect (with LEILAH)
14. drive (with LEILAH)

Salute 2024 Tour Dates

5/05 – New York, NY @ Four Tet & Friends Festival
05/17 – Tuscany, Italy @ Flash Festival
05/18 – Edinburgh, Scotland @ FLY Festival
05/25 – Glasgow, Scotland @ Riverside
05/26 – Bristol, England @ Love Saves The Day
06/02 – Dublin, Ireland @ Forbidden Fruit
06/09 – Manchester, England @ Parklife
07/28 – London, England @ Junction 2
08/02 – Copenhagen, DE @ O Days
08/03 – Vienna, Austria @ Paradies Garten
08/10 – Barcelona, Spain @ Brunch
08/11 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Loveland
08/16 – Hamburg, GER @ Dockville
08/22 – Lincoln, England @ Lost Village
06/09 – Dhermi, Albania @ ION

Pre-order True Magic by Salute HERE