Author Archives: Nadia Rahman

Here’s a fun party trick for the streaming era: name the most prolific, most decorated, most argued-about British band of the last seven years, then try to describe what any of them look like. Go on. I’ll wait. You can’t. That’s the whole point. SAULT — pronounced like the thing you put on chips, spelled like a password — is a London collective that has released thirteen studio albums since 2019, been nominated for a Mercury Prize, won an Ivor Novello, headlined All Points East with a five-hour set, and done it all while treating fame the way a cat treats a bath: with total, principled refusal.