Savages

The PR / Marketing for these folks is raging full on..I see an ad for them on every other site.

I've listened to the album a few times now and.......it's good. Not amazing. I'm not too fond of "Strife," "No Face" or "Hit Me," but the rest is fine (ignoring "Dead Nature" here). I wish it was mixed better - it's a bit too dense for my liking - it needs some more space. There isn't much Joy Division-sounding on the album, but I thought of Crispy Ambulance a couple of times. Jehnny Beth doesn't sound much like Siouxsie besides the "uh uh" things on "Husbands" (I prefer the single version of that, to be honest). The lyrics aren't as good as Jehnny probably thinks they are, but I can ignore that. The bassist is REALLY good though.

I had no idea this band was hyped at all until Matador announced the LP... Some friends were talking about them last year so I gave them a listen and dug it enough to buy the 7" and the live EP. I liked that stuff enough to pre-order the album at my local record store and bought it on the day of release. This is the first time in years that I've bought an album without listening to it thoroughly beforehand, so I am disappointed that I don't like it as much as I hoped.

I don't spend much time worrying about people's motives or looking for clues about who they're ripping off, but I don't think emulating obscure (by general public standards) bands from decades ago is a guaranteed path to superstardom. Maybe I'm naive to think it isn't totally calculated, but they could be copying top 40 pop stuff with guest rap stars and probably reach a much wider audience than they will with this type of music.

Enjoyed Shut Up today - thought about Echo and the Bunnymen for some reason while listening - not that this detracted from the tune.

Good spot on Crispy Ambulance. There's a bit of Warsaw, Kitchens Of Distinction, Southern Death Cult, Diamanda Galas... I think the Banshees thing is pretty uncontroversial though. They're more like a Limey Interpol rather than Strokes surely?

It's pretty depressing the amount of misogynist comments I've had to delete off our site about them. Of a really lame... "I'm not sexist but... [insert sexist comment here]" type.

Yeah, that is pretty depressing actually. It's 2013, for fucks sake...

Southern Death Cult is a good spot I think.

Been listening to this a bit more now that the weather has turned to shit here and I'm definitely coming round to it, think I was pretty much wrong when I said they didn't have the songs. Still hard to shake the echoes of other bands but it actually feels fairly fresh in a way cos there are interesting combinations of influences once you get beyond the 'oh it's just post punk' blanket statement and they play it with enough skill and dead-on conviction that it does stand up on its own merits. Kind of like the Iceage records maybe?

Gets gothier in the later half of the record, but some of the tracks on the first side (especially 'I Am Here') are a bit like early YYY's meet Scratch Acid (a testament to the excellent bass player that). Singer sounds very Karen O-ish in places, but the more intense and yelpy she gets, the more undeniable the Siouxsieness is. Also there's things like on Hit Me where she sings 'tell me, tell me, tell me' and it feels like a direct reference to the Banshees via 'Helter Skelter'. 'She Will' is the one that sounds like early Cult, that's such a Billy Duffy guitar line on there. Husbands is like a cross between the Banshees and 'Horses' and '12XU' (impossible for me not to sing 'saw you in a mag, kissing a man' to the first line).

Actually, Husbands feels even gothier still when you pretend she's singing 'Huysmans, Huysmans, Huysmans'

Definitely get a YYYs vibe from Hit Me.

boring

KEXP session pretty good, but probably won't sway the nay sayers

http://www.npr.org/event/music/184349634/savages-elegant-brutality-rendered-anything-but-silent

this is my favorite album of the year so far

it's been done

so's yr mom

even that was better the first time

You know if I was taping this for a friend, I might be tempted to put Griller by Ut on side two

I keep reading the thread title as "Sausages."

That would undermine the feminist themes on the album.

when I first read this thread I googled the band and now I get fucking savages banners on every site I visit.

so's yr mom

hasn't everyone's mom?

srsly the ad buys for this band are insane

before I'd even heard of them I was searching youtube for some obscure brooklyn band and half of the related videos was savages stuff

2013 stringent UK postpunk band SEO guess papers oink invites

xp

free savages gift cards

download "husbands" for yr hubby on father's day, he deserves it

They just burned 30 Rock down to the ground on Jimmy Fallon.

"pretend she's singing 'Huysmans, Huysmans, Huysmans'"

Excellent.

what a way to go

xp

I wasn't that crazy about the album on a first listen, but seeing their energetic performance on Fallon, has me thinking maybe I should reconsider.

I saw their Jools performance first and that definitely influenced how I processed the album

This album has only got better for me with subsequent listens!

web-only song:

http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/blogs/2013/06/savages-citys-full/

man I have to see them live

D.C. show in small club sold out too quick for me

severe & passionate haircut

I think this band is still a little too beholden to its influences, but they're tight and very charismatic and I could see them putting out great records in the future if they break out of that mold a bit. Would definitely see them live.

they're tight eh

This Johnny Hostile guy is a bit of a twit isn't he?

For now on i keep it live only ,as long as i can… As soon as you put music on a record those days , everything turns into some kind of promotional moronic shit.

http://johnnyhostile.tumblr.com/

http://www.comedycv.co.uk/alanparker/2003-may-alanparker.jpg

is that the twin peaks guy? whatever happened to him?

web-only song:

http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/blogs/2013/06/savages-citys-full/

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already liked the album ok but 100% sold after watching that, damn.

"Waiting For A Sign" continues to rule my summer; also for those who don't get the Geddy Lee comparisons, this is the song where they are strongest

I dunno, man, I have more than a fondness for Rush and I still can't really hear much Geddy even on that song. 'Waiting For A Sign' was the last song on this to slot into place for me, I think. 'She Will' is my favourite song on here at the moment!

finally listening to this. came here to say that it sounds like Rush but i see that has been covered.

I still don't fully understand the Rush thing.

I still don't fully understand the Savages thing tbh.

i don't get this. i'm sure savages are lovely folk & shit, they got something together. but dang, if this ain't EMPTY

I guess they're blowing up because they played NYC last Thursday and sold out a 1000-plus capacity room (Webster Hall) and have already announced that their next show here in the fall will be in a 3000-plus capacity room (Terminal 5). Kinda surprising. Also a bummer because I'd like to see em play and Terminal 5 sucks.

They played a 300 or so quickly sold out room in DC over the weekend and are coming back in the fall to a 1200 person room.

My friend and I had the exact same reaction last night: This band has it going on, the singer is great, the musicians committed. Etc. And yet, we both left thinking, you know, we've flipped through this record bin before, and don't really see the band bringing much more to the table besides being good. Which is probably good enough, we conceded, but my friend in particular said he's perfectly happy sticking with his Bauhaus.

god, remember this band? really brings me back...

Dunno if it is a matter of too much too soon, but I was surprised the band did not sell out last night.

^ chicago homies of mine were talking about just "showing up" and walking in to that show and laughing @ all the bands who shot their wad at the summer festivals in the chicagoland area depressing their own gate