Piano Salt

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Piano Salt
Piano Salt by Angie McMahon.png
EP by
Released2 October 2020 (2020-10-02)
Recorded2018–2020
StudioThe Perch Recording Studio, Castlemaine.
Green Bunch Florist (track 5)
Label Angie McMahon
Producer Alex O'Gorman, Jono Steer
Angie McMahon chronology
Salt
(2019)
Piano Salt
(2020)
Light, Dark, Light Again
(2023)
Singles from Piano Salt
  1. "If You Call"
    Released: 7 May 2020
  2. "Soon" / "The River"
    Released: 16 September 2020

Piano Salt is the second extended play by Australian singer-songwriter Angie McMahon. The EP was released on 2 October 2020 and peaked at number 19 on the ARIA chart.

Contents

The EP is a combination of reimagined piano versions of McMahon's debut studio album Salt, as well as a two of her favourite covers by Lana Del Rey and Bruce Springsteen. McMahon said "Piano is the first instrument I learnt and the one that made me first love singing. My favourite piano song when I was young was k.d lang's cover of 'Hallelujah'. So this EP feels like a return to my piano-cover-loving inner kid. It's been a really nice creative opportunity to recreate the feeling of some bigger songs off my first record, give them a new life, and cover some of my favourite songs too. It gave me something to do when we went into quarantine. The creative process also helped me shed some fear around sounding too cheesy on the piano, or too sad - I realised that doesn't matter so much because I just love to play and sing." [1]

In choosing songs, McMahon said, "Some of the other songs on the record would easily offer themselves to piano, they're a bit more ballad-y. So I just kind of felt like, because they were the furthest from a piano ballad, they felt like the right ones to do." [2]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Soon"Angie McMahon3:52
2."Slow Mover"McMahon4:32
3."Keeping Time"McMahon3:25
4."The River" Bruce Springsteen 5:46
5."If You Call" (featuring Leif Vollebekk)McMahon5:47
6."Born to Die" Elizabeth Grant, Justin Parker 4:25
7."Pasta"McMahon5:41

Charts

Chart (2020)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [3] 19

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabelCatalogue
Australia2 October 2020Angie McMahonAM002PCD / AM002PLP
United States2020
  • digital download
  • streaming
  • vinyl LP
Dualtone803020219212

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