Savages

kinda expecting them all to fall out and split up by the end of the year tho, ha, there will be a lineup change or too i'm sure

eugh, *two hangover

There are seven or eight like bands per block but none with as cute a lead singer, that's it, right?

i really liked this lot on later..

Yeah, I watched that and enjoyed it/them a lot. Hilarious to read the "call that music"-type tweets from misogynist rockist grandads afterwards.

I see they've got an album out next week on vinyl only.

Confused now - Amazon says it's double vinyl, HMV that it's a 12" single with a bonus CD!

I think it's just single vinyl http://popnoire.bigcartel.com/product/savages-12-live-ep-i-am-here

"Husbands" guitar sound is quite the Dead Kennedys homage. But, again, I like the stew they're drawing from, just got the live EP now.

i like the urgent vocals on husbands.

they have this sort of "aura" around them and maybe it's a contrived aesthetic but they seem like one of the more interesting new bands in a while to me

There's an album now? I've been loving "Husbands" for months.

John and Jehn is pretty cool too if you like that kind of thing "and we run" should have been a bigger hit imo

bump

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3xWUifu3l24/UUjGVz0aoZI/AAAAAAAACCc/YE4auS-bSeY/s400/Savages-Silence-Yourself.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kebq-cENNn0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuIB8HEmnoY

http://silenceyourself.savagesband.com/

Their forthcoming LP, "Silence Yourself", is now streaming on their website.

Saw them live a couple weeks ago. Furious amount of sound they generate - breathtakingly so. The Dead Kennedy's reference upthread is particularly spot on as my first thought was "Siouxsie & the opening to 'Holiday In Cambodia.'" It's a great sound, but after a hour all the songs just felt similar. Suspect they could make a truly great album if they worked on the material more.

I saw them too in SF, one of the best live bands I've seen in a long time.

Sunday April 28 New York Times Jon Pareles writeup and podcast mention

Very serious facsimile this lot.

Curious to see them live, but eh, just think they lean a bit too hard on post-punk during a time when that period feels like it's been wrung dry as a source of inspiration.

Reading the fancy Pitchfork thing now and their rise seems so inevitable and choreographed. Perhaps they are completely natural and authentic but it feels like we are being manipulated by another kind of hype machine. The rote nature of the music is the main reason I am unconvinced by this band but this kind of cool and slick marketing is another.

I don't know about slick marketing, or even what the "hype machine" means these days. When I first came across them it was through genuine buzz around their live shows. Of course if you don't like the music then you'll read excitement as hype.

Yeah, if you have gripes with "cool and slick marketing" take it to the daft punk thread

I take DL's point - if I liked the music then the hype probably would not bother me. I am not enraged by the ineptitude of the music by the way just kind of underwhelmed by something which is clearly so special and exciting to so many. Maybe I am just jaded and old.

just think they lean a bit too hard on post-punk during a time when that period feels like it's been wrung dry as a source of inspiration.

idk unless there's a big tranche of stuff I'm missing I think this is a pretty good time for a band like them to stand out. the only currently-happening stuff that came to mind as soundalikes for me is all these American anarcho/goth/postpunk bands that are springing up now, but I doubt most ppl who grab the Savages album are gonna hear any of them. bits of it also reminded me of Throwing Muses somewhat. liked it way more than I was expecting overall

Was that Pitchfork piece actually linked yet? Looks like not, so:

http://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/savages/

Keep in mind I had to switch computers to actually get the darn thing to load fully. Good use of the technology.

I am into their unsmiling meannesss. I like this record.

that Later.. performance was really something IMO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neRGpHLj1EQ

When I first came across them it was through genuine buzz around their live shows.

Same here. I first heard about them over a year ago when one of the UK music blogs I check in with mentioned their live show and to keep watch.

When did Pitchfork start formatting features like that? That's pretty cool.

holy fuck @ everything about this group

this is really shaping up to be a phenomenal year for music

I love this year

xp Matt, I think the first P4k feature like that was Bat for Lashes, but it didn't play with video like this does. I got so unsettled by the band staring at me that I couldn't concentrate on the text and had to read the lo-tech version instead.

Is everyone else able to read that feature OK? I couldn't read half of it in Chrome, tried it on Linux & Windows.

I read it fine in Chrome on a 2 month old computer

wow @ the p-fork article ...
thats impressive ...

whoever mentioned east bay ray in relation to the guitar O T M. i half agree about this being almost comically boxed in by the period perfect postpunk costuming, but that later performance is astonishing. fuck yeah. reminds me a bit of his electro blue voice (italian band), but less heavy, noisy + psychedelic.

Great ambient music, in the sense of "It's definitely Siouxsie/East Bay Ray with further noises and therefore easy to have playing without worrying too much." (I assure you, a compliment.)

streaming the album now; 1:40 into "Shut Up" and I have another new favorite band

most things are worrisome

And happily this is not!

I guess no surprise that SFJ is writing about them in the New Yorker (piece behind paywall)

I streamed about half the album yesterday and liked it enough that I don't want to risk having my enjoyment ruined by reading whatever SFJ has to say. I will just buy it next week and listen to it for pleasure, like a normal person.

streaming the album now, damn good

here are a couple hebv tracks, in case anyone's curious. both from a few years back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnXdpbLQBUg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzmUzelvmFk

I think I first heard them back in 1980.

with music this good i really don't care how it's packaged. great to finally be excited about a relatively new band.

i like the album and live tracks quite a bit, but i'm still half on the fence. i mean, i've seen a lot of similar stuff come and go over the last 6 or 7 years without attracting this sort of attention tsunami. (look at me, i'm the lex.) then again, most didn't have the pop & human interest appeal, so no surprise i guess.

Yes, love that the feted indie rock album of the year sounds like early 80s Siouxsie crossed with Throwing Muses.

Hmm, hadn't thought about the Muses in comparison.

Don't get the Muses comparison - they had way more more personality and always the capacity to tip into bubblegum. They had interesting songs not just po-faced versions of cool style. This crew sounds more like a fashion statement.

yeah i'm also on the fence... feel like the british are distinctly good at ruining their young bands

the marketing push on this band is ridiculous

the album art appears SEVEN TIMES on the Quietus review page

http://thequietus.com/articles/12140-savages-silence-yourself-review

“From the first rehearsal, it was very productive— we weren't just there to tell each other we're great,” remembers Milton, who arrives for her one-on-one grilling carrying a copy of The Fountainhead.

: /

oof, ol' cheekbones kills me every time. they are kinda the Interpol of my dreams. they should re-do old Interpol songs and make them better.

how long till David Fincher casts her in something I wonder

anyway great song

they are kinda the Interpol of my dreams. they should re-do old Interpol songs and make them better.

I endorse this idea

The Kiss of feminist post punk revivalism: a great band let down only by their lack of many good songs.

holy shit this is incredible.

Excellent!

Yeah, this is really quite astonishing. The amount of build on it, plus the false ending -> big triumphant (but dark) finish is so, so perfect.

When is the next album out? Their first was so perfect that I didn't think that they were going to be able to keep that mood going, but singles indicate that oh yes they can and they will.

The new album is out Jan 22.

This new song reminds me of The Glee Club, a one-and-done 4AD band from the 90s.

Everything I've heard from this album suggests it's going to be way better than the debut.

Here, you’ll get a different side of firting ("I’m not gonna hurt you/ 'Cause I'm flirting with you/ I'm not gonna hurt myself"), the messiness of love ("This is what you get when you mess with love"), lust ("Sleep with me/ And we'd still be friends/ Or I know/ I’ll go insane"), sexual fluidity ("When I take a man/ Or a woman/ They're both the same/ They're both human"), sexual discovery ("When I'm with you/ I want to do/ All the things that/ I’ve never done”), sexual power ("When I take a man/ At my command/ My love will stand/ The test of time"), jealousy/threats ("If you don't love me/ You don't love anybody")

some truly, truly terrible lyrics here

I've listened to the new album a couple of times and it's... just ok. Fairly monochromatic, the title track is an early favorite but there's a number of tracks that make no impact at all.

Yeah, the first three tracks released (all on Spotify) have pretty thoroughly un-sold me on them.

I love Adore, but on this new album doesn't really grab me by the jugular like the first one

On spotify now btw

Just listened, and had the exact same reaction. "Adore" is the clear standout, but it is all a bit...drab?

That's a shame to hear. A forgettable second album can be a career killer.

FWIW, the reviews have been strong so far, though the gist of the ones that I skimmed from Pitchfork and AV Club were both "good, but no Silence Yourself."

Solid reviews are one thing but if there isn't any buzz around it I wonder how long it'll take before everyone's moved on.

Huh -- I haven't listened closely yet but over the course of a few distracted commuting plays I've been finding it more interesting than the first. I'll have to give it a better listen this weekend but at least with the first one I had to hear it a dozen times or so before I decided it was worth buying, whereas I already know I'll be picking this one up. So much of the buzz last time around seemed to revolve around their live performance -- if they can maintain that intensity and keep touring I think they'll be fine even if the consensus comes out against this album (though I just took a peek at Metacritic and both the critic and reader scores are currently higher for this than Silence Yourself).

OK so the second half does drag a bit. Overall I dig it though.

i really don't understand why i don't like this band a lot more than i do

here's a post punk throwback band I love, Oaks

https://modernradio.bandcamp.com/album/animal-life

> the first one I had to hear it a dozen times or so before I decided it was worth buying

I'm impressed, there's no way I'd give a dozen listens to anything I was on the fence about. Unless it was more of a case of something in the back of your head kept pulling you back, but even then... kudos for your perseverance. I'm sure I've missed out on things that simply required more time.

I think the first album is much more immediate than the second, largely because the drums feel muffled to me on the second album.

> I'm impressed, there's no way I'd give a dozen listens to anything I was on the fence about.

Generally I wouldn't either but I loooved the 1st single and all signs pointed to it being something I should like. Plus most of my listening time these days is during my relatively long commute or in the office where I'm trying to get reading or work done at the same time, so I can easily play a new album a dozen times over the course of three or four days and still not have a great sense of it. Probably took me close to that many plays to realize I loved the last New Order album which I thought was terrible during the first listen.

You may be right that you've missed out on things that required more time, but I've probably missed out on just as much by giving things more time than they deserve when I could've been trying something else.

i really don't understand why i don't like this band a lot more than i do

Same. As my friend quipped when I took him to see the band a few years back, "I've shopped in that used record bin already."

Never heard the band before but I checked out the new album on Spotify and it's great!

I was ambivalent at first, but it finally clicked with me. "Adore" is still the standout, but song for song, I probably like this just as much as I liked the debut.

I still like the debut more but this is a fun album.

Saw them last night. Furious energy, charismatic and the guitarist makes beautiful Belew noises.

holy shit the performance tonight at Glastonbury was something else, just *shockingly* good.

it'll be up here at some point http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ewcj5v/videos/p03ybmmv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KMLyQjI5mI

disgusting band

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she has too many h's in her name

really liking the kite base album (ayse hassan's other band). kind of a cross between young marble gientsy sparseness and an update of the sort of thing too pure were putting out 20 years ago (e.g. laika, early peej)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESnYCvwBxUk

more from ayse hassan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkWNyDFqrro&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkWNyDFqrro

Suddenly struggling to hear "Adore" without imagining Morrissey singing it.

Man, this band dropped off my radar really quickly. Dug the first album, ditched the second, and I never had that itch in the back of my head making me play their stuff.

I'm hoping a third album produces something different.

Goat Girl have the missing ineffable thing that kept this band from sticking for me.

I'm not very familiar with band outside of the music on its first album - which I love - so I had no idea Jehnny Beth had been acting in films. I only discovered this at a screening of Anatomy of a Fall (the Palme d'Or winner at this year's Cannes Film Festival) and I thought "that caretaker looks very familiar, where I have seen her before?"