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Sault “Safe Within Your Hands”

Sault released five free albums this week, a volume of material that demands to be digested gradually though there are plenty of songs spread through the records that immediately announce themselves as career highlights for the mysterious British R&B collective. “Safe Within Your Hands,” off the heavily gospel-centric Untitled (God), had me from its first few jazzy piano notes. This is a gospel song with the slinky sexuality of D’Angelo on Voodoo; one that uses the old Christian pop trick of making lyrics ambiguous enough to either be about romantic love or a relationship with God to its advantage. When the choir sings “your love is all I need for the day” it feels like it could be about either but I hear it as both – finding your way to the higher power in love and sex, physical and emotional intimacy that blurs into religiosity.

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