Savages and Wax Idols

Savages, out of London, are getting a lot of attention lately, a glowing profile in the New Yorker, a 8.7 BNM review from Pitchfork, a live appearance on Jools Holland (see below).



I have to say I feel more in tune with the zeitgeist than usual, as the debut Silence Yourself is intensely, unflinchingly good...and, obviously, targeted at people exactly like me with a Pavlovian response to GO4-ish picked bass, Siouxie wails and jittery, unsentimental angst.

Still in the girls fronting no-wave-into-post-punk bands sweepstakes, I probably like Wax Idols a little better...Savages have a philosophy, maybe a manifesto, and so are easier to write about, but check this video of "Sound of a Void" from Discipline and Desire.



Good to see the girls up front though, in both cases, and kicking ass.

Barrence Whitfield and the Savages

Just signed to Bloodshot...this guy is awesome.



Not these Savages, unfortunately. (Wouldn't that be incredible?) Though they are pretty good on their own and obviously do not need much hyping help from me.



Off to another track meet, this time the girls' 7th and 8th grade invitational...busy, busy, busy. (But ice cream after, so that's fun.)