Savages announce new album Adore Life
London-based post-punkers Savages have announced the release of their second LP Adore Life, to be released in January 2016.
Adore Life is the follow-up to their widely acclaimed debut Silence Yourself , noted for its "cathedral-shaking stop/start bass" and the guttural howls of vocalist Jehnny Beth. The band have also unveiled a video for new track The Answer, which you can watch below.
To celebrate the release of Adore Life, Savages will perform a morning show at London's 100 Club, at 8am on Tuesday 26 Jan – head this way to book tickets. Of the album, the band added the following statement:
It’s about change and the power to change. It’s about metamorphosis and evolution. It’s about sticking to your guns and toughing it out. It’s about now, not tomorrow. It’s about recognizing your potential. It’s about self-doubt and inaction. It’s about you. It’s about me. It’s about you and me and the others. It’s about the choices we make. It’s about finding the poetry and avoiding the cliché. It’s about being the solution, not the problem. It’s about showing weakness to be strong. It’s about digging through your dirt to look for diamonds.
It's about claiming your right to think unacceptable thoughts. It’s about boredom and the things we do to drive it away. It’s about being on your own so you can be with people. It’s about knowing what it means to be human and what it might mean one day. It’s about the parts and the sum of the parts. It's about the music and the message: together, one and the same. It’s about bass, guitars, drums and vocals. It’s about opening-out and never, ever dying. But most of all it’s about love, every kind of love. Love is the answer.
Read The Skinny's interview with Savages vocalist Jehnny Beth
Savages also offered the following explanation of the video for The Answer:
We've observed our audience all around the world and noticed that something is happening. People want to be pushed to do good, or to be good, or just to feel good. We wanted a very intense video, that felt like banging your head against the wall, focusing on our audience: a portrait of our crowd, an homage to music lovers and the good people who are coming to gigs and shouting their lungs out, or just smiling at the back. We were touched by them every night, and wanted to get their message out there: loud guitar music is still alive and still connects people.
Recorded in London's RAK Studios with producer Johnny Hostile, Adore Life is released by Matador on 22 Jan 2016.
Adore Life tracklist:
The Answer
Evil
Sad Person
Adore
I Need Something New
Slowing Down The World
When In Love
Surrender
T.I.W.Y.G.
Mechanics