Scaler Shares “Salt” Feat. Akiko Haruna

Bristol’s SCALER returns with details of their highly anticipated new album Endlessly. The news follows the release of “Broken Entry” in April and their signing to Black Acre (home to Commodo, Sully, Karen Nyame KG, Waldo’s Gift, Crimewave, and more), who will release the album on 26th September 2025.

Made up of Alex Hill, Isaac Jones, James Rushforth, and Nick Berthoud, alongside visual artist Jason Baker. SCALER has been hailed as “Bristol’s next national breakthrough” by critics (The Guardian) and “legends in the making” by fans (per the always-honest YouTube comment section). Endlessly is their second album, formally, following 2022’s acclaimed Void, which earned praise for their “perfect synergy between intensity and precision” (Pitchfork) and led to a 2023 double A-side single with Daniel Avery (“Loam” / “New Symbols”) that expanded on their more club-wise impulses– in keeping with a slew of remix projects shared over the years, featuring boundary-hoppers such as Laurel Halo, Bruce, and Azu Tiwaline. It also meant more chances to play out their formidable, now-stuff-of-legend live show, including an ArcTanGent headline, a Shangri-La shutdown at Glastonbury, and performances at Boomtown, Green Man, End Of The Road, ADE, Nuits Sonores, and many more.

Powerful and immediate, like a raised pulse under taut skin, Endlessly tugs at emotional threads and sonic touchpoints that feel tangled up – deliberately so – in the musical heritage of their city. There are traces of trip-hop, drum‘n’bass and experimental electronic, plus flashes of pupil-dilating techno, metal and drill, all carried by immense low-end pressure and tempered by more subdued, spatial stretches that drift and sprawl. Voices layer and loop, instrumentals do the same.

Contributors from Bristol and beyond, including Akiko Haruna, Art School Girlfriend, Tlya X An, Shadow Stevie, Cold Light’s ELDON, and “techno wizard” Thomas Ridley, add new colour to the band’s darkened palette and point to the left-turns they’re leaning into. Today’s new single “Salt”, with Haruna, is a prime example combining digitally manipulated vocal melodies, sweeping glitched out synths, restrained hi-speed rhythms, and distorted bass.

Speaking on the single, the band says, “Collaboration was central to the creation of this album, and Akiko was the first artist we reached out to. We’ve been long-time fans of her vocals, sound design, and production, and working together has been something we’ve wanted to do for a long time, so we’re thrilled it finally came to life.

We had this sparse and haunting track that felt like the perfect canvas for Akiko. From the moment we heard her initial ideas, we knew we had something special and couldn’t wait to share it.”

Having just finished a packed-out EU tour with And So I Watch You From Afar and Robocobra Quartet, the band have also today announced details of a UK headline tour for November 2025 – their first since 2023. Dates listed below.