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Released | 6 May 2013 | |||
Recorded | December 2012 at Fishfactory in London, United Kingdom | |||
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Length | 38:39 | |||
Label | Matador, Pop Noire | |||
Producer | Johnny Hostile, Rodaidh McDonald | |||
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Silence Yourself is the debut studio album by the English post-punk band Savages, released on 6 May 2013 on Matador Records and Pop Noire, a label owned by vocalist Jehnny Beth.[2] It was nominated for the 2013 Mercury Prize.
Music and style[edit]
Critics made a parallel with British post-punk of the late 1970s, Magazine and Gang of Four. NME wrote that 'French frontwoman Jehnny Beth has moulded herself into the demonic, possessed spawn of Ian Curtis and Siouxsie Sioux'.[3]Uncut retrospectively said about the music: 'It is a bit Siouxsie, a bit Stranglers, a bit Magazine – and after a decade-odd of bands reviving the sounds and strategies of post-punk'.[4]
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Reception[edit]
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AnyDecentMusic? | 8.0/10[5] |
Metacritic | 82/100[6] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
The A.V. Club | B[7] |
Chicago Tribune | [8] |
The Daily Telegraph | [9] |
The Guardian | [10] |
Mojo | [11] |
NME | 8/10[3] |
Pitchfork | 8.7/10[12] |
Rolling Stone | [13] |
Spin | 8/10[14] |
Silence Yourself received widespread critical acclaim upon its release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 82, based on 36 reviews, indicating 'universal acclaim'.[6]
In the United Kingdom, the album reached No. 19 on the charts. In the United States, the album debuted at No. 70 on the Billboard 200,[15] and No. 20 on the Rock Albums chart.[16] The album has sold 43,000 copies in the US as of December 2015.[17]
In 2019, Pitchfork ranked Silence Yourself at number 178 on their list of 'The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s'; senior editor Stacey Anderson wrote: 'Silence Yourself carries every bit of [Savages' live show] adrenaline; in its coiled, sparking guitars and rabid screams, it warns of the dangers of technology while weaponizing its potential.'[18]
Track listing[edit]
All tracks are written by Savages.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | 'Shut Up' | 4:48 |
2. | 'I Am Here' | 3:20 |
3. | 'City's Full' | 3:27 |
4. | 'Strife' | 3:57 |
5. | 'Waiting for a Sign' | 5:25 |
6. | 'Dead Nature' | 2:06 |
7. | 'She Will' | 3:27 |
8. | 'No Face' | 3:35 |
9. | 'Hit Me' | 1:41 |
10. | 'Husbands' | 2:50 |
11. | 'Marshal Dear' | 4:03 |
Total length: | 38:39 |
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Personnel[edit]
All personnel credits adapted from Silence Yourself's album notes.[19]
- Savages
- Jehnny Beth – vocals, piano
- Gemma Thompson – guitar, illustration
- Ayse Hassan – bass
- Fay Milton – drums
- Additional musicians
- Duke Garwood – clarinet (11)
- Technical personnel
- Johnny Hostile – production, mixing
- Rodaidh McDonald – production, mixing
- Mattia Sartori – assistant engineering
- Mike Marsh – mastering
- Design personnel
- Antoine Carlier – design
- Richard Dumas – photography
Chart positions[edit]
Chart (2013) | Peak position |
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Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[20] | 64 |
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[21] | 93 |
Dutch Albums Chart[22] | 75 |
Irish Albums Chart[23] | 39 |
Irish Independent Albums Chart[24] | 5 |
UK Albums Chart[25] | 19 |
UK Independent Albums Chart[26] | 5 |
US Billboard 200[27] | 70 |
US Billboard Alternative Albums[27] | 14 |
US Billboard Independent Albums[27] | 13 |
US Billboard Rock Albums[27] | 20 |
References[edit]
- ^ abPhares, Heather. 'Silence Yourself – Savages'. AllMusic. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
- ^'Coming May 6: Savages – Silence Yourself LP/CD/digital album'. Matador Records. 19 March 2013. Archived from the original on 1 May 2013. Retrieved 4 May 2013.
- ^ abBarlow, Eve (7 May 2013). 'Savages, 'Silence Yourself''. NME. Archived from the original on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
- ^Pattison, Louis (10 February 2016). 'Adore Life- review'. Uncut. Archived from the original on 18 January 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2016.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
- ^'Silence Yourself by Savages reviews'. AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
- ^ ab'Reviews for Silence Yourself by Savages'. Metacritic. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^Zaleski, Annie (7 May 2013). 'Savages: Silence Yourself'. The A.V. Club. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
- ^Kot, Greg (6 May 2013). 'Album review: Savages, 'Silence Yourself''. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^Brown, Helen (3 May 2013). 'Savages, Silence Yourself, album review'. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^Petridis, Alexis (2 May 2013). 'Savages: Silence Yourself – review'. The Guardian. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^Segal, Victoria (June 2013). 'Fierce creatures: First mission from this year's statement band'. Mojo (235): 87. ISSN1351-0193.
- ^Zoladz, Lindsay (6 May 2013). 'Savages: Silence Yourself'. Pitchfork. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^Fricke, David (7 May 2013). 'Silence Yourself'. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
- ^Benson, Stephanie (6 May 2013). 'Savages, 'Silence Yourself' (Pop Noire/Matador)'. Spin. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
- ^'Billboard 200'. Billboard. 25 May 2013.
- ^'Rock Albums'. Billboard. 25 May 2013.
- ^'Upcoming Releases'. Hits Daily Double. HITS Digital Ventures. Archived from the original on 14 December 2015.
- ^'The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s'. Pitchfork. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
- ^Silence Yourself (Album notes). Savages. Matador Records. 2013. OLE-1036-2.CS1 maint: others (link)
- ^'Savages – Silence Yourself'. Ultratop (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ^'Savages – Silence Yourself'. Ultratop (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ^'Savages – Silence Yourself'. dutchcharts.nl (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ^'Top 100 Artist Album, Week Ending 9 May 2013'. Chart-Track. GfK. Archived from the original on 20 May 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ^'Top 10 Independent Artist Album, Week Ending 9 May 2013'. Chart-Track. GfK. Archived from the original on 15 December 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ^'2013-05-18 Top 40 Official Albums Archive'. Official Charts Company. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ^'2013-05-18 Top 40 Independent Albums Archive'. Official Charts Company. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ^ abcd'Silence Yourself – Savages | Awards'. AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
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External links[edit]
- Silence Yourself at Discogs (list of releases)
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silence_Yourself&oldid=958456970'
Ayes Hassan, Gemma Thompson, Jehnny Beth and Fay Milton. Photo byRichard Dumas
Silence Yourself is the debut album by Savages, a ferocious, fully formed record that sounds like a lost transmission from the core of England’s post-punk lineage.
The world’s first sighting of Savages came as recently as Jan. 2012, with a short, well-shot B&W video of the band performing one of their best songs (my personal favourite), “City’s Full.” With Ayse Hassan’s bass at the apex of the mix and singer Jehnny Beth’s wide-eyed transfixion, it screams Joy Division more loudly than anything on their subsequent record does.
The comparison to the posthumously ubiquitous Manchester band is common, as is that of Beth’s voice to Siouxsie Sioux and Gemma Thompson’s guitar grind to PiL. They’re all apt, but more than most contemporary bands designated post-punk, Savages are worthy of inclusion in that canon. And unlike much of the canon itself (with the possible exception of Siouxsie & the Banshees, who had their moments), Savages are sexy—their music, while easily linked to post-punk’s anti-blues, “rip it up and start again” ethos, doesn’t entirely eschew rock ’n’ roll’s carnal groove. Just listen to “Strife”—the song would penetrate you sexually if it only had a cock.
And that, if you’ll pardon the salacious segue, is where Johnny Hostile comes in. Beth and Hostile—née Camille Berthomier and Nicolas Congé—have personal and musical roots that go deeper than this decade, down to 2006, when they left their hometown of Poitiers, France for London, where they launched their music project John & Jehn.
“It was a very intimate project, something that was much more a way of life than a profession, which is what I consider the music to be now with Savages,” says Beth. “John & Jehn was, for me, very valuable—everything I know about music or the music business is something I’ve learned with John.”
When it came time for the duo to tour their sophomore LP, Hostile enlisted a drummer and a girl he had “a guitar crush on”: Gemma Thompson. Over two years on the road, he and Thompson made a musical connection that moved her to ask him to sing in a new band she was forming with Hassan, the band that would become Savages. Jimi hendrix discografia mega stones. But this coincided with John & Jehn falling out with their label, founding the Pop Noire label and signing LESCOP, a project that Hostile became increasingly occupied with in the studio. So he stepped away from Savages, never venturing to centre stage, though he’d eventually return to produce Silence Yourself.
“I thought it’d be a good idea if I tried to sing for this project,” says Beth. “When Gemma came up with the name Savages, I was writing lyrics that I thought were similar to the ideas that Gemma had and the things she was reading at the time, and so we sat down and tried to see it clearly. But there were no sounds—it was more like ideas. And then the three of us—me, Gemma and Ayse—thought we should have a female drummer, so we asked around and found Fay.”
When asked why the drummer needed to be female, Beth laughed at her inability to explain their reasoning. An intuitive desire “to create something complete” was as close as she came to an answer. It’s not much of a leap to attribute the choice to aesthetic consistency, especially when you see what a different beast Beth was in John & Jehn, with her longer hair, vulnerable eyes and relatively innocent lyrics about love. Savages is deceptively high-concept, and that’s what makes them so damn tight.
Aside from the band’s sonic power and songwriting skill, and Beth’s gripping stage presence and masterful voice, Savages are remarkable for the way that her penmanship matches the music’s sexual energy. She manages to be frank AND sexy without sacrificing poetic flow, an especially impressive feat for an ESL writer.
“I was researching erotic poetry a lot, because the third John & Jehn record has a lot of exploration into eroticism. It was really hard to find a female voice for eroticism, something that was going to be direct, simple and not too romantic. And funnily enough, I found that very much in gay poetry. Then I found some similarities between erotic poetry and war poetry. I found the same directness, and it had the same impact on me. Often very powerful—poems which would contain the extremes of life and the intensity that I needed.
“Then, in terms of music, it was more trying to find a representation of the ideas that we were having, and also concentrating on the fact that we wanted to write for stage. We wanted to write music to be performed.”
As great as their record is, seeing Savages’ live show is reportedly essential—the NME called it “frottage-inducing,” but we’ll have to report back to you about that. In John & Jehn, Beth developed a flare for theatricality, and an understanding that focused intent and simple presentation are key to audiences’ hearts and minds.
“It’s not that people really notice it. It’s kind of subliminal,” she says of Savages’ performance technique. “Instead of looking at what other bands are doing, we just asked ourselves, ‘What would you do if you had to do everything from the beginning, strip everything down and start again from scratch?’ This is how we try to communicate with our music in different ways, to bring people into our world.” ■
Savages play with opener Johnny Hostile at la Tulipe (4530 Papineau) on Monday, July 15, 8 p.m., $20/$23, all ages.
Savages play with opener Johnny Hostile at la Tulipe (4530 Papineau) on Monday, July 15, 8 p.m., $20/$23, all ages.