DIA: Red Vinyl LP

Label: Domino Recording Co.
Release Date: 17th January

Somebody needs to kick off the party of 2025, just as folk are hunkering down, trying to fight their urge to give into late night activities, there needs to be a record, a sound, an artist with a big bag of bangers who is making a noise that pulsates outside your window. Columbian producer and singer Ela Minus is that artist, with her wonky, warped and incessantly catchy South American electro recalls that trashy hedonistic club sound of the early 00s but thoroughly packaged for today. 

Colombian producer and singer Ela Minus’s 2020 debut, ‘acts of rebellion’, felt intentionally small, as if pounding inside the club with late-night reverie. ‘DIA’ is both introspective and expansive, the wide sweep of its songs revealing more of Ela as person and artist than ever before.

‘DIA’ is a record about becoming, from a process that entailed self-discovery at a deliberate pace to songs that seem to collectively ask where we go from here, long after we’ve been broken but long before we intend to be broken forever.

Throughout the 10 songs, mixed by Marta Salogni and mastered by Heba Kadry, the same team behind ‘acts of rebellion’, Ela seems to saddle a line between worlds of pop accessibility and experimental aplomb, her incandescent choruses always surrounded by meticulous and imaginative sonics.