BEN SALTER

New album

Back Yourself

Released September 1

through ABC Music/ Universal Music Australia

Pre-order HERE

National tour confirmed for

October and November

Unveiling Back Yourself, the third solo album from revered Australian singer songwriter Ben Salter, following 2011’s The Cat and 2015’s The Stars My Destination. It is his second album to be released through ABC Music.

The album features lead single “Isolationism”, written by Salter with long time Gin Club collaborator Conor Macdonald, and impacting at media today. View video HERE.

Back Yourself was made over a twelve-month period at locations around Tasmania and Victoria. It was predominantly recorded with producer Chris Townend (Augie March, Daniel Johns, Tim Finn, Portishead) at his White Light studio, located on the edge of Tasmania’s Huon Valley.

Back Yourself features guest appearances by well-known Australian guitarist and songwriter Jeff Lang, Peter “Blackie” Black of underground legends The Hard Ons, and Something for Kate drummer Clint Hyndman. Melbourne based jazz saxophone virtuoso Julien Wilson and his BeeforChicken Quartet act as the backing band on two tracks, “The First Sign Of Madness” and “I Need You”. Wilson has played on all three of Salter’s albums.

Other key personnel include regular collaborator Seja Vogel (Regurgitator) on synthesizer and vocals, vocalist Gemma Sharard (Skyscraper Stan & The Commission Flats) and Tasmanian based drummer Sam Dowson (Lawless Quartet, Mephistopheles, Lazer Baby, Milquebarth).

Back Yourself continues some of Salter’s long held thematic preoccupations – love, dreams, armageddon, video games; the ocean and the stars; the intersection of myth and science; and the nature of reality itself.

Opening track “Where Corals Lie” is a version of a piece by English classical composer Edward Elgar, which was itself an adaptation of a poem by minor English poet Richard Garnett. It was originally performed in 1899. Final track “End Of Days” was written in Lyttelton with NZ songwriter and performer Marlon Williams on Salter’s last NZ tour.