Ela Minus has shared her blissed-out new single ‘COMBAT’, marking her first launch in 4 years.
The four-minute and 21 second monitor begins off low and gentle and builds as much as a cacophony of techno-aligned manufacturing and new-age synths. The monitor additionally includes a quartet of woodwinds, marking the primary time the Colombian producer and singer has written and recorded with acoustic devices.
‘COMBAT’ may be very spacey till Minus’s gentle vocals are available in the direction of the top of the monitor. She pairs the gentle, ambient music with intense lyrics: “We’re the birds that solely know life inside a cage / And nothing scares us / They thought we might overlook find out how to fly / They thought we wouldn’t dare to take a leap…hahaha,” singing in Spanish.
Talking in regards to the track in a press launch, Minus mentioned: “The muse of ‘COMBAT’ comes from a recorded efficiency I did a couple of years in the past. It was then that I improvised the chord development that turned the soul of the track.”
She continued: “Jesse Scheinin did an attractive efficiency of the woodwinds I wrote for it. It’s in regards to the depth of emotions and feelings that it hopefully evokes. You come out the opposite finish of the battle stronger. I hope the music speaks for itself.”
Directed by Losmose, ‘COMBAT’s accompanying music video options Minus in a white room with partitions of froth spikes. There closeups of an open chest and coronary heart whereas coding languages scroll on the display.
Minus’ final launch was 2020’s ‘Acts of Insurrection’. In a four-star assessment of the LP, NME shared: “Her music-with-a-mission bangers is especially timeless, however as Ela put it to NME again in April: ‘There’s a lot shit taking place on the planet and all of us must act on it’. This debut harnesses the spirit and can to beat forcefully and with inclusivity.”
She has a string of stay developing within the UK, Europe and Canada. Try a full record beneath and go to right here for tickets.
Ela Minus 2024 stay dates
JUNE
8 – Bude, Cornwall, UK @ The Wyldes *
14 – Barcelona, ES @ Sónar
28 – Halifax, UK @ The Piece Corridor *
AUGUST
10 – Finsbury Park, UK – 4 Tet All Dayer (DJ Set)
22 – Montreal, QC @ MUTEK Montreal
* supporting Underworld
