Salt vinyl

Salt

2022 Remaster + Vinyl Reissue

The 2002 debut Forget Cassettes record, Instruments of Action, blended punk, riot grrl, post-rock and channeled them into a visceral and raw explosion. The 2006 follow-up, Salt, evolved that sound into a highly produced - but no less visceral - version. Salt was never pressed to vinyl but with this special 16-year birthday reissue, fans can finally enjoy the entire album and it's b-sides as one cohesive package.

  • A. Venison 6:39
  • A. Quiero, Quieres 3:08
  • A. The Catch 4:51
  • B. Nicholas 5:47
  • B. My Maraschino 6:54
  • B. Lonely Does It 6:18
  • C. Patience, Beth (Reprise) 4:49
  • C. Salt and Syncope 5:38
  • C. Tabula Rasa 4:06
  • D. Sleeper [Bonus] 4:14
  • D. Patience, Beth (Fast) [Bonus] 5:07

Listen to the Track by Track discussion of the making of Salt with Beth Cameron, Jay Leo Phillips and Aaron Ford.

forget cassettes version II
beth cameron: guitar/vox
jay leo phillips: bass/rhodes/b. vox
aaron ford: drums/b. vox

Recorded and Mixed by:
Jeremy Ferguson at Alex the Great Studios
and Battle Tapes January & February 2006

Mastered by:
John Golden at Golden Mastering Ventura, CA 2006
John Baldwin at John Baldwin Mastering Nashville, TN 2021

All songs birthed by Beth Cameron
©2006 WOMAN WITH A MISSION MUSIC (ASCAP)
©2022 WOMAN WITH A MISSION MUSIC (ASCAP)

Made whole by Doni Schroader, Aaron Ford, Jay Leo Phillips

Photos: Rebecca Gillespie
Album Artwork: Nick Butcher • www.sonnenzimmer.com
Album Layout: Michael Eades

YK-099 • ykrecords.com

Salt Press

  • ...channels the sort of whisper-to-shriek Polly Harvey vocal histrionics and napalm-spraying guitar to make a thousand indie boys tremble with a strange mix of adolescent lust and abject terror.

    — NME

    2007 Review

  • Noisily melodic garage-punk trio fronted by tiny singer / guitarist Beth Cameron, whose purring wails falls somewhere between PJ Harvey and Karen O.

    — Spin

    72 Hours in Nashville

  • It’s pop melodies built on top of a brutal foundation of cadaverous bass lines, dripping snatching, guitar lines and waterfalls of cymbals. It’s rock music is what it is.

    — Drowned in Sound

    2007 Review

  • Salt is more dynamic, more energetic, more raw than its predecessor...

    — VisualMusic

    2006 Review

  • Singer Beth has that certain charisma that makes you sit up and take notice - similar to Chan Marshall's early elaborate works.

    — GuestList

    2006 Review

  • Flawless pop is paired here, PJ Harvey not entirely unrelated, with brilliant rock instrumentation and forces the listener, just like Cameron herself, to the ground.

    — Plate Tests

    2007 Review

  • When Salt’s jagged, addictively hooky triumvirate of 'Quiero Quieres', 'Salt And Syncope', and 'Tabula Rasa' become the mega-hits they deserve to be, we doubt you’ll be interested in anyone’s advice.

    — Penny Black Music

    2007 Review

  • ...an ear toward emotional intensity through a balance of shredding volume and pastoral quietude.

    — Cincinatti City Beat

    Music: The Nashville Network

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