Ela Minus announces second studio album, DIA

Following her 2020 debut, acts of rebellion, the forthcoming album, DIA, is both introspective and expansive, with its songs revealing more of Ela Minus as person and producer than ever before.

After three years of toting snippets of songs around her native Colombia, her briefly adopted Mexico, and her series of rented apartments and hotel rooms across North America and Europe, Ela thought ​​DIA was finally complete. And then, she thought back to acts of rebellion and recognised her lyrics hadn’t been honest enough. They’d exposed her surface and not herself. This time, she wanted to go deeper. She began by changing the setting—an outpost in California’s Mojave Desert, a month-long hotel and small studio stay in Los Angeles, forays back to New York, a Puget Sound-side vista near Seattle, Mexico City, and finally London

Late one night while working from a rented cabin in the mountains of Mexico, she stumbled upon a chord progression that she knew would launch the record. This is heard at the start of DIA opener “ABRIR MONTE.” Ela Minus comments, “‘ABRIR MONTE’ is a phrase commonly used where I'm from, referring to the act of opening paths through dense foliage. I've always loved the poetry of it. That is what making this record felt like, opening new paths inward and outward, continuing to delve further through unexplored territory.”

The new single, “BROKEN,” soon unspooled from that same tone. "I started writing this thinking I was perfectly fine and finished writing knowing I was not," Ela Minus says. “BROKEN” follows the previously released single, “COMBAT.” ​​

Tracklist:

1. ABRIR MONTE
2. BROKEN
3. IDOLS
4. IDK
5. QQQQ
6. I WANT TO BE BETTER
7. ONWARDS
8. AND
9. UPWARDS
10. COMBAT