Sault Return to Sumptuous R&B (and Sly Michael Jackson References) With Stealth-Released ‘X’: Album Review

Stealth has always been part of the U.K. R&B collective Sault’s methodology and mystique: The prolific and partially anonymous group, led by songwriter-producer Inflo and singer-songwriter Cleo Sol, avoids photos, interviews, splashy cover art and all the usual trappings, instead dropping a mind-boggling number of albums in a variety of styles — ranging from orchestral to stripped-down rock, along with their usual R&B — in the six years since they first appeared: some 12 albums (yes, twelve!) and two EPs, not to mention four Inflo-helmed albums by Sol and Inflo’s recent work with Michael Kiwanuka and Adele, and Sol’s

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