Piano Salt

Piano Salt
EP by
Angie McMahon
Released2 October 2020 (2020-10-02)
Recorded2018–2020
StudioThe Perch Recording Studio, Castlemaine.
Green Bunch Florist (track 5)
LabelAngie McMahon
ProducerAlex O'Gorman, Jono Steer
Angie McMahon chronology
Salt
(2019) 		Piano Salt
(2020) 		Light, Dark, Light Again
(2023)
Singles from Piano Salt
  1. "If You Call"
    Released: 7 May 2020
  2. "Soon" / "The River"
    Released: 16 September 2020

Piano Salt is the second extended play by Australian singer-songwriter Angie McMahon. The EP was released on 2 October 2020 and peaked at number 19 on the ARIA chart.

The EP is a combination of reimagined piano versions of McMahon's debut studio album Salt, as well as a two of her favourite covers by Lana Del Rey and Bruce Springsteen. McMahon said "Piano is the first instrument I learnt and the one that made me first love singing. My favourite piano song when I was young was k.d lang's cover of 'Hallelujah'. So this EP feels like a return to my piano-cover-loving inner kid. It's been a really nice creative opportunity to recreate the feeling of some bigger songs off my first record, give them a new life, and cover some of my favourite songs too. It gave me something to do when we went into quarantine. The creative process also helped me shed some fear around sounding too cheesy on the piano, or too sad - I realised that doesn't matter so much because I just love to play and sing."[1]

In choosing songs, McMahon said, "Some of the other songs on the record would easily offer themselves to piano, they're a bit more ballad-y. So I just kind of felt like, because they were the furthest from a piano ballad, they felt like the right ones to do."[2]

  1. ^ "Angie McMahon Piano Salt". female. September 2020. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  2. ^ "Angie McMahon hits the rest and reflect button for 2020: "People are so burned out all the time"". NME. 2 October 2020. Retrieved 12 July 2023.