Savages - Adore Life

Post-punk rarely comes across as an embrace as well as an open call to arms. But on Savages’ second record, Adore Life, the ten urgent, taut songs are equally determined to snap us out of our revelry, while also challenging listeners to find love where we can and make the world a better place in the process.

While 2013’s Silence Yourself was filled with untamed, strident anthems of assertion and incisiveness, Adore Life is far more seductive in both its convictions and its potency. The intimate lure of connection lingers fitfully beneath the churning pulse of these dynamic new tracks, which shake you awake as well as whisper in your ear. “Is it human to adore life?” questions singer Jehnny Beth on the record’s sprawling emotional centerpiece, “Adore.” By the end of the record, Savages have left little doubt that love is indeed the answer, and that they are unquestionably the best rock band in the world. Throughout Adore Life, the quartet seems intent on breaking free of the nagging conventional confines of the studio. Their sound and their message is bigger than four mere walls can contain, and the songs take on the raw, expansive quality of a live set that frequently hits full boil. The group – featuring Beth, guitarist Gemma Thompson, bassist Ayse Hassan, and drummer Fay Milton – decamped to New York City during January 2016 to run through and refine their material during a series of nine riotous club shows. And that transformative experience helped the group sharpen these songs into the ten venomous arrows that they have collectively aimed at your heart as well as your head. Just don’t flinch or the prick could prove to be lethal.

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Savages; Adore Life

1.       The Answer

2.       Evil

3.       Sad Person

4.       Adore

5.       Slowing Down The World

6.       I Need Something New

7.       When In Love

8.       Surrender

9.       T.I.W.Y.G.

10.   Mechanics