Santigold may have been out of the spotlight for quite sometime, but don't think she's been slacking off. The singer/rapper who graces the cover of Paper Magazine revealed that she's been hard at work on a new album which will be released this fall. Santi also revealed that although difficult, she plans to find the balance between mainstream and underground with her new album now that so many that have come after her have swagga-jacked her sound.
“I wanted it to feel dynamic and powerful,” says the 34-year-old. “I still have the songs that sound very electronic and clubby, but I have a couple ballads on this one — my own type of ballads, where they just sound big, like the way some old Kate Bush or Peter Gabriel songs were…on this one song, we did a whole section that has a bottle used as the percussion, so there’s layers upon layers of Greg Kurstin playing a bottle and literally filling it with different layers of water, and stacking each note. Mixed with a marimba and taiko drums!” Santi continues. “The window for writing pop music has become so narrow, it’s difficult to get in there without doing some cookie-cutter shit.”
Production on the album will be handled by Switch, Dave Sitek, Nick Zinner (from the Yeah Yeah Yeah's), Ricky Blaze and Greg Kurstin. I love me some Santigold, and now that M.I.A. has cracked at the seams, it seems to me that Santigold is the rightful heir to Maya's throne. Can't wait for the new album
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