Savages - T.I.W.Y.G

Nobody, anywhere, thought that Savages were holding back on their 2013 debut ‘Silence Yourself’. Following on from previous single ‘The Answer’, though, this new cut ‘T.I.W.Y.G’ suggests that the London group were bottling up a whole lot of explosive energy in reserve. It begs the question: were Savages - whisper it - holding back an extra something on their debut? If the first two limb-splitting tracks from new album ‘Adore Life’ are anything to go by, it seems like that may well have been the case.

‘T.I.W.Y.G’ props Savages up as a band with a ferocious sense of urgency, their frenzied post-punk roaring as singer Jehnny Beth laments, “This is what you get when you mess with love.” Savages still have a certain knack at handling tension-and-release, with the track lending you short pockets of breathing space from Gemma Thompson’s stabbing guitar, Fay Milton’s pounding drums and Ayşe Hassan’s violent, unrelenting bass before it plunges you head-first back into a breakneck assembly of striking, lashing noise. This is a volatile triumph. Oh. One last thing. Turn this up. Turn this RIGHT UP.