[Cover photo features Stéphane Schück & Scott Miller in 2005]

The new EP from the international supergroup The Salt Collective has recently been released, titled Last Day That We’re Young.

The groundwork for the new EP from the Paris-and North Carolina-based ensemble actually dates back to 2000, when Collective leader, Stéphane Schück, first met the late Scott Miller (Game Theory / Loud Family) in San Francisco, starting them on the road to collaboration.

One of the recently released tracks on the EP is “Try the Lost and Found,” a collaboration and co-write with Mitch Easter (Let’s Active), his first release in nearly two decades, recorded during recent sessions at Easter’s Fidelitorium studios in Kernersville, NC for a forthcoming full Salt Collective album, A Brief History of Blindness, due in the Fall.  

Easter says about the song:

In Stéphane’s demo, the part that I heard as the verse suggested a kind of dislocated, tentative feeling, but as the song continued it became exuberant and forceful. So I got the idea that the song would be about a triumph, becoming victorious over feelings of dislocation and restriction. Especially the idea that time constrains us. In a strict sense it does, but we feel great when we’ve gotten a lot done in a short span of time. Or, that we have time to just be. We’re always thinking about time. 

And since it’s still a pop song, I think one is allowed to sing some words just for the sound of them! There is something uplifting in the lyrics, but with a dusting of slightly eerie imagery. Good clean fun, I think.