DJ and producer salute shares new single and visualizer, “luv stuck” with fellow Manchester artist piri, one half of the band piri & tommy and a member of the female collective Loud LDN. Alongside the single, salute is announcing a fall headline North American tour with dates in Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal and New York as well as a performance at Miami’s Ill Points Festival.

The single is the fourth song to drop from salute’s forthcoming album, TRUE MAGIC, due July 12th on Ninja Tune. The track features vibrant synthesizers shimming over a steady, light drum groove and driving sub-bass, propelled by filter sweeps and soaring oscillators. The song is anchored by piri’s playful vocals. piri shares about how the song came together, “‘luv stuck’ was written at a super vulnerable time for me and it was such a joy to work with salute and put those feelings into a song! Breakups can be nasty or nice, and ‘luv stuck’ deals with how hard it can be to move on after a nice amicable breakup. You’re left wondering if it could’ve worked out, and it can take a while for time to heal those wounds, it leaves you stuck with those lingering feelings of love for a little while.”

“luv stuck (with piri)” follows previous album singles “maybe it’s u” in collaboration with Scottish producer and singer Sam Gellaitry, “system,” featuring vocals from Empress Of, as well as “saving flowers” with Rina Sawayama, which was added to Radio 1’s C-list and included in Spotify’s Best Songs of the Year So Far. The album also features Disclosure, Karma Kid, and Léa Sen, among others and will see a physical release on cassette, CD, and vinyl. Fans of Salute include Four Tet, DJ Seinfeld, Floating Points, Mall Grab, Daphni, Skrillex, Fred Again, and more.

TRUE MAGIC finds salute embracing a more 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.

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 a surprise guest when salute played their collaborative track “saving flowers” to a crowd for the first time. salute 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. Last month, salute performed at Four Tet & Friends Festival and at the Elsewhere rooftop b2b with DJ Seinfeld in NY before heading on their full European run with stops through Manchester, London, Paris, and Barcelona among many others.

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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


06/29 – Glastonbury, England @ Arcadia Stage, Glastonbury (B2B Joy Anonymous)

07/14 – London, England @ Rough Trade East (In-Store)

07/16 – Bristol, England @ Rough Trade (In-Store)

07/17 – Liverpool, England @ Jacaranda (In-Store)

07/28 – London, England @ Junction 2

07/29 – Ibiza, Spain @ DC-10

08/02 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ O Days

08/03 – Vienna, Austria @ Paradies Garten

08/11 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Loveland (B2B DJ BORING)

08/12 – Ibiza, Spain @ Amnesia

08/16 – Hamburg, Germany @ MS Dockville

08/18 – Hasselt, Belgium @ Pukkelpop

08/22 – Lincolnshire, England @ Lost Village (B2B Jyoty)

08/23 – Lincolnshire, England @ Lost Village

08/25 – Warrington, England @ Creamfields

08/27 – Ibiza, Spain @ Amnesia

08/30 – Chicago, Illinois @ Arc

08/31 – Detroit, Michigan @ Big Pink

10/4 – Denver, CO @ Summit

10/5 – Washington, DC @ 930 Club

10/10 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theater

10/11 – San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom

10/12 – Vancouver, BC @ Village Studios

10/16 – Toronto, ON @ Axis

10/17 – Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmount

10/18 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel

10/19 – Miami, FL @ Ill Points Festival

Pre-order True Magic HERE