Salt Cathedral, have announce their new album, Before It’s Gone, which drops on March 22, via Independent/The Orchard. Ahead of the album’s arrival, the duo have shared lead-single “Terminal Woes,” a track invested in urgent protest call against corporate greed, the climate crisis and the world for future children. Vocalist Juli Ronderos‘ encapsulates these challenges into a glorious alt-pop song inspired by Ravi Shankar.

From Salt Cathedral:

“”Terminal Woes” are the woes that will bring us (humanity) to our demise – in this song, climate change. How do I bring a child into a world that is getting, by all predictions, physically worse? How is capitalism/corporate interest & greed steering the wheel (or not steering the wheel?). We live in bubbles where we forget nature and animals exist too. Powerful people making decisions have their wallet, not the planet in mind. The only solution is reaching a point where the planet and the wallet align, where the most profitable business plan is to be sustainable. Sonically, it’s a march of sorts, a chorus that bursts into stacks of voices to show collectivism and a lot of inspiration from Ravi Shankar’s music.”

For Colombian-born duo Salt Cathedral, this semi-existential crisis fed into their latest record Before It’s Gone; an instrumentally-organic, lyrically-driven exploration of days slipping through our fingers, and how our lack of attention affects how we see the years ahead.

“You think about the future, but it happens all the time” is the first line declared by vocalist Juli Ronderos. It’s a curtain pull, bright-light-to-the-eyes jolt that urges us to snap into the now, the present, and the future that is unfolding as we float on. This everyday anxiety is nothing new, but it’s the gravity in which Salt Cathedral delivers their message, as Ronderos’ isolated vocals swell, that morphs it into a tunnel vision investigation. What is the future? And will the future always exist? “Modern technology affects how we see the future,” she explains. “If you have too much input, you will not have output.” Before It’s Gone fights against the complacency in remaining static.

Salt Cathedral
Before It’s Gone
Tracklisting
The Orchard

1. Before It’s Gone
2. Complacent
3. Terminal Woes
4. Strong Emotions
5. Off The Walls
6. I Can Trust
7. Wait In Line
8. cellphone
9. Thinking (’bout you, ’bout me)
10. Empty Machine
11. Protect Her

Pre-order Before It’s Gone by Salt Cathedral HERE