SAULT's five-album drop deepens its long-standing communal values

Across 12 releases over three years, the London ensemble SAULT has posed a number of increasingly existential questions: "Why do fools always have something to say?" (, 2019), "Can you forgive your people?" (, 2020), "Can't you see the light's in your hands?" (, 2021), "How do you fight for love?" (, 2022). On November 1, the group released five albums for free as a .zip file (the password was 'godislove'): . (The albums have since been officially added to streaming platforms.) It's a trove of music depicting an unidentified group of artists constantly in process, but the release also feels defiant in a culture of marketing concessions and tidy narratives. And so SAULT's questions are