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Genre: Post-Punk

Release Date: May 7, 2013

Record Label: Matador Records

Savages, in their four-piece all-female ensemble, bring out their inner, classic post-punk intricacies while throwing in elements of noise and industrial edge into the mix. This is a powerful album that not only radiates a dominant persona, it bears a message that yearns to be heard. Silence Yourself attractively poises itself as one of the year’s best efforts that showcases an experimental nature, as well as all the baggage that post-punk tends to tag itself with. From Joy Division’s sorrowful and detracted lyrical constructs by Ian Curtis, Gang of Four’s addictive bass with Andy Gill’s scathing dissonance cutting through every track – though to be fair, it would be unjust to equate these elements upon Savages’ first work. Yet indeed, from “She Will” and its creeping, boiling Jehnny Beth, alongside Ayse Hassan’s bass that remind of Gang of Four’s immersive numbers to “Husbands,” Silence Yourself certainly makes various nods to its influences.

Silence Yourself it isn’t just all loud noises and seething moments though. No, their slow burners, crackling with enough heat, blossom for those who wait – “Waiting for A Sign,” starts out innocently, but barrels us into submission with sumptuous pedal effect as they circle around Beth’s cryptic delivery, wrapping around Ayse Hassan’s crawling bass and Gemma Thompson’s screeching dissension. It breaks apart the perceived harmony Savages were portraying, even if that is excessive levels of noise rock demonstrated on “I Am Here” and “City’s Full.” Though the mid-stages of Silence Yourself enter a dead calm with “Dead Nature,” only to introduce another re-emergence of energy in “She Will,” and in essence it signals far more sure Savages on the second-half of Silence Yourself. The album takes a parsimonious feel about it, where all involved extend the atmosphere of every moment with a reverberation and overabundance of resonance. It eventually leads to “Husbands,” a representation of visceral, vengeful nature of Silence Yourself as a whole.

Savages have only been together for roughly two years, but they have a cohesive air about them. They swap and switch in subject matter with great ease, all the while bringing about the same swarmed discord and conflict on each track as 1970s punk groups. They’re not as quite overly deafening as say, The Stooges were, but they indeed share the same cacophony limit. Whether they clamor on about religion in “Strife,” gender division upon “She Will,” or just bombard us on “City’s Full,” Savages aren’t afraid to start with a swift pace, a slow-burner, or reach outside of our boxed conception of the genre as seen in the closer “Marshal Dear.” All have perplexed facets upon their instrumentation; the key is the way Savages delivers them with force, a sense of intimidation and at the same time it all feels so vulnerable.

Those that are revered in the post-punk genre are able to do this as well – Mission of Burma, Joy Division, Gang of Four, Swans, The Raincoats to name a few. Their ability to weave through religious discussion, dark subjects such as suicide, state of being, corruption in politics, or media all served to enhance their audience and their versatility. To see such focus and complete freedom from Savages is telling. “I Am Here,” screams through the wall of noise brought upon by Thompson, it indeed gestures a coming of the old and new – glory of 80’s post-punk with frustration of masculine double standards.

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02 Substance
03 Confidence
04 Stranger
05 Relief
06 Holidays
07 Family
08 The Current
09 Destroyer
10 Death
11 The Ocean

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