Salt Cathedral - 'Strong Emotions'
Salt Cathedral after 3 years release their brand new single, ‘Strong Emotions’ that describes the desire to feel something different.
NYC-based Colombian band Salt Cathedral share their brand new single, ‘Strong Emotions’, a funk inspired song that describes the desire to feel something strong and different. This is the first release since parting ways with Ultra Records who released their 2020 debut album, ‘Carisma’.
Since 2021, Salt Cathedral have been working on a fresh and expansive body of work, with surprises that may throw their fans for a loop but in the best way. As the band moves into their next phase of creativity and independently, they are focused on exploring ideas of time, especially the future, and the relation to our modern-day existence through themes of climate change, technology, social media and complacency. The duo will be teasing some of their new songs later this month at Estéreo Picnic Festival in Bogotá, as well as playing headline shows in Medellín, Bogotá, and New York City.
Salt Cathedral are genre-defying. The duo are Juliana Ronderos and Nicolas Losada, who are celebrated for their ability to fuse elements from the vanguard of electronic music and a scope of global rhythms. The duo creates an inimitable sound that is as accessible as it is adventurous. They have released a series of acclaimed EPs, singles and their debut album. Their music pushed against the pillars of indie pop and Latin music which attracted major publications like Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, NPR, The New York Times and many others.
Front-woman Juliana talks about the pandemic, and how they were both at the point where they were not having new experiences or new emotions. She continued that, “Soft music, which I normally love, felt too mellow, and intense music made me feel lonely in the experience. The song is both visceral and cheeky; I'm trying to find out if anybody feels like me and in the end, asking to feel strong emotions in the most deadpan of expressions, it felt almost comical.”
Words by Bethany Simms
