Dua Saleh builds a post-apocalyptic queer romance on Of Earth & Wires

Dua Saleh releases Of Earth & Wires on 15 May via Ghostly International, a conceptually ambitious second album that brings together climate anxiety, artificial intelligence, war, memory and queer romance. The Sudanese-American artist follows their 2024 debut I Should Call Them with a record that feels larger in both subject and scale.

Bon Iver appears on Flood, Keep Away and Glow, while Gaidaa and aja monet also feature, giving the album a collaborative frame that stretches across R&B, experimental pop, poetry and alternative electronic music. What makes Of Earth & Wires interesting is the way Saleh turns global crisis into a personal emotional landscape. The album is not simply about the end of the world as spectacle. It is about where love, grief, home and identity can exist when the world already feels unstable.

Flood was shaped in part by Saleh’s experience of climate-related flooding in Cardiff, while the wider album draws from the war in Sudan and questions about AI, loneliness and displacement. Saleh’s voice can move from softness to rupture, from sensuality to confrontation, and that flexibility gives the project its power. For an indie/alternative digest, this is a key 15 May release: genre-fluid, politically aware and emotionally charged. Source: https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/bon-iver-gaidaa-and-aja-bonet-feature-on-new-dua-saleh-album-of-earth-wires ; Review: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/may/15/dua-saleh-of-earth-and-wires-review