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- From: Joly MacFie <joly AT punkcast.com>
- To: "Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)" <typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [TypicalGirls] Savages
- Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 00:52:35 -0400
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/25/new-band-savages
They are an all-girl four-piece, barely together for a year with their
debut gig as recent as January 2012, who remind you of that post-punk
moment when a new kind of female musician emerged, a reminder of the
feral energy and cerebral vigour that we first experienced via
Siouxsie, the Slits et al. Not that they exploit the fact of their
sex: if anything, the singer has the intensity of an Ian Curtis as
much as anyone from the canon of female performers and she compels,
like Curtis, without having to resort to anything obviously theatrical
and pantomimic. It's all in the simplicity and the stare.
Blink and you'd think you'd heard it all before, which is why we
didn't write about them before. And so congratulations should go to
the players who make, through their contributions, the medium, 56 this
year, seem utterly new. Musically they're incredible – jazzily fluid
and exploratory but tight, not sloppy and grungy. The rumbling bass
has a motorik drive, and the drums back it up skilfully. They have the
rhythmic insistence and violent precision of the key Manchester bands,
and the dishevelled looseness of the Bristol ones (if the Pop Group
were riot grrrls …), and when the guitar slashes into view it does so
with ferocious force. Image-wise, they're thrillingly intriguing, too,
both live – where they're bathed in black and white – and in interview
photographs, where their arty cool (they're serious about Dali, Monk
and Celine) comes through.
https://www.facebook.com/savagestheband
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- [TypicalGirls] Savages, Joly MacFie, 05/26/2012
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