LISTEN TO IT #76: SILENCE YRSELF
May. 29th, 2013 09:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogI don’t often get hot music tips from Amazon.com. Or at least not in terms of anything I’d actually want to listen to. Amazon’s recommendations can be way off base sometimes, though to be fair that’s partly because I use it as a research tool sometimes.
Anyway, after I bought a copy of that new Thermals album, Amazon sent me an email saying, “Hey, if you liked that, maybe you’ll like this.”
Which was, in this case, the debut album from British band Savages, whom I’d never heard of.
It might have ended there, but then I was browsing in the local music store and cane across the same album. It wasn’t on a listening station, so I fired up the smartphone and went straight to YouTube to sample a couple of tracks.
The rest is history.
The comparison to The Thermals is a bit off – where that band goes for charging, power-pop, Savages deploy angular post-punk drenched in reverb and feedback, which puts them closer to the likes of A Place To Bury Strangers by way of Sleater-Kinney.
That said, like The Thermals, Savages have passion to spare, and have something to say. There’s something very kinetic and exciting and urgent about this album. It’s definitely one of the more unsettling albums I’ve heard this year.
Listen.
The sound of silence,
This is dF
Anyway, after I bought a copy of that new Thermals album, Amazon sent me an email saying, “Hey, if you liked that, maybe you’ll like this.”
Which was, in this case, the debut album from British band Savages, whom I’d never heard of.
It might have ended there, but then I was browsing in the local music store and cane across the same album. It wasn’t on a listening station, so I fired up the smartphone and went straight to YouTube to sample a couple of tracks.
The rest is history.
The comparison to The Thermals is a bit off – where that band goes for charging, power-pop, Savages deploy angular post-punk drenched in reverb and feedback, which puts them closer to the likes of A Place To Bury Strangers by way of Sleater-Kinney.
That said, like The Thermals, Savages have passion to spare, and have something to say. There’s something very kinetic and exciting and urgent about this album. It’s definitely one of the more unsettling albums I’ve heard this year.
Listen.
The sound of silence,
This is dF
