Music: Savages - Silence Yourself
I haven’t written a music post in a while, and this one
should have been written ages ago, since their first album came out a few
months ago (May 6th to be exact) and I have been listening to it
ever since.
Some days I complain to myself that all I listen to is “old”
music, and that the only albums I buy are new albums from “old” bands, and that
there is not much “new” music that makes me feel the same way my “old”
favourites make me feel. You get the drift… And then all of a sudden, out of
the blue, a new band will release an album and I will be blown away by it.
Completely blown away. And this makes me feel that things are somewhat right in
the world again (well from a music standpoint, because outside of that I doubt
anything will be ever completely right again). Maybe I need to rephrase: Savages made me feel like everything was
right in my music world again.
Seriously. Here we have another band that I want to kick
myself for not taking the night off work back in October of last year to see
them play live at the Mercury Lounge, because there is no way that they will
ever be playing a small venue like that again in this city. In fact, they are
playing a sold out show at Webster Hall tomorrow night (Thursday July 11th),
and if there is any way you can get in you definitely should. I wish I could,
but I really can’t afford a night off work this week… Ah well. Next time. At
least I can continue to listen to the album on repeat without getting tired of
it!
Savages create music that makes you forget everything around
you, let you lose yourself in a whirlwind of sound and emotion, and makes you
dance like no one is watching, whether they are or not. Formed in 2011 in London,
this all female band released their first album, Silence Yourself, this year. For me they seem to be timeless, and
although they have been labeled as “post punk revival”, probably because they
mainly fit right in with the sounds of The Cure, Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees
and Joy Division to name a few, for me they are a band I would have loved at
10, at 16, at 25 and now. Timeless. It’s not even about influences, as I
honestly don’t listen to or even like every band influenced by The Cure or Nick
Cave, it’s more about a perfect match of sound with lyrics that takes me to
another place. And being in another place always makes me happy. My happy
music, as my sister would call it. Dark, dreamy, raw, powerful and dark.
Listening to Silence Yourself makes
me feel the same way as I do whenever I listen to Faith.
With powerful vocals (think PJ Harveyesque) and raw lyrics
that you can emphasize with, Savages are definitely my new favourites for this
year, and I really can’t get enough of them.
Listen to Shut Up, and especially Waiting for a Sign – I have had this one on repeat for a while now.
Beautiful song which evokes so many emotions as well as a feeling of power and
loss of all power at the same time. Sometimes I feel like they have taken the
words that run around my brain all the time and created songs out of them.
No Face -
"Repeat every word I say, Miming another boring day, I have better things to do, Now you’re here I must get rid of you”