Ela Minus on “painful” private reckoning behind second album ‘DÍA’: “We have enough dance music about dancing”’

Ela Minus on “painful” private reckoning behind second album ‘DÍA’: “We have enough dance music about dancing”’

The Colombian artist tells NME about the long road that led to her new release, of how the music industry is “a dark place” and more.

Album Review: Ela Minus – DÍA

Ela Minus ends her second album DÍA with a track called “COMBAT”. Conventional wisdom tells us the Colombian-born/US-based electronic artist is courting some fiery bluster this time around. Not in this specific case. “COMBAT” is a gorgeous, meditative piece of music, peppered with glassy textures, carefully layered vocals – a human element sundered by frigid synth swirls, like grains of sand inside of a vortex. Not some adrenaline-pumping techno…