Six years after Terra Firma, Tash Sultana returns with Sonic Alchemy on Friday 19 February, shares the raw new single ‘Don’t Know Why’ and heads out on a March arena tour, including OVO Arena Wembley.
It has been six years since Tash Sultana’s ARIA chart-topping Terra Firma, and the wait is over. Their third studio album, Sonic Alchemy, lands on Friday 19 February via BMG, with a big European arena run to follow in March. You can pre-save the album here.
A record made the hard way
Sonic Alchemy took two years, with real instruments, real takes and no shortcuts. Tash calls it “anti-AI”, saying “everything you hear is real”. Every breath, bit of headphone bleed and happy accident has been kept in the mix. Across the record they move through love, loss, grief, lust, envy and celebration.
The new single and video, ‘Don’t Know Why’, is the most exposed Tash has ever been on record. You can listen here or watch the video. “My life fell apart over the last couple of years and after I lost everything but my wife and the four walls of my house, I took what was left of me to the studio and wrote this,” Tash says. “You can hear in my vocal takes at points where it cracks, and that’s because it’s real emotion. We could’ve fixed it, but fixing it wouldn’t have been honest.”
It follows ‘Something In The Water’, a warm, unhurried groove. The eleven-track album also features SIX60 on ‘Sunday’, Snoop Dogg on ‘Push Up On It’ and Free Nationals on ‘Bad News’. The rest of the tracklist reads: The Serpent, Muddy Waters, Roses, Golden, Higher and Sacred Geometry.
The arena tour
This is where it gets loud. With a new global team behind them after signing with BMG, Tash plays 13 nights in some of the biggest rooms on the continent. Their biggest UK show to date, at London’s OVO Arena Wembley, is already selling out fast.
The full run: Thursday 11 March, 3Arena, Dublin; Saturday 13 March, OVO Arena Wembley, London; Monday 15 March, Lanxess Arena, Cologne; Tuesday 16 March, Lotto Arena, Antwerp; Thursday 18 March, Barclays Arena, Hamburg; Friday 19 March, Velodrom, Berlin; Sunday 21 March, Porsche-Arena, Stuttgart; Monday 22 March, Olympiahalle, Munich; Tuesday 23 March, Stadthalle, Vienna; Thursday 25 March, Festhalle, Frankfurt; Friday 26 March, Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam; Monday 29 March, Adidas Arena, Paris; and Wednesday 31 March, Movistar Arena, Madrid.
From busking to Red Rocks
It is quite the climb for someone who started out busking on the streets of Melbourne. Tash has since headlined major international festivals, racked up billions of streams and sold more than a million tickets worldwide. They have broken attendance records at Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena and sold out Red Rocks Amphitheatre in five minutes on three separate occasions.
Demand is high at the other end of the world too. Second shows have been added in Auckland, Wellington and Perth for the April and May Australia and New Zealand dates, with tickets via Frontier Touring.
If you want to hear these songs the way they were made, live and loud, grab your tour tickets here before your city goes the way of Wembley.
