British four-piece Savages are releasing their sophomore album, Adore Life, on January 22nd via Matador Records. Previously the band had shared a video for “The Answer” and the audio of the unrelenting “T.I.W.Y.G.” Now the band has shared another song from the record, the ballad of sorts “Adore” via its video. Anders Malmberg (Mew, Mø) directed the clip with lighting and concept design by Tobias Rylander (The xx, FKA twigs). It is a direct clip, with frontwoman Jehnny Beth singing right into the camera. The song starts slow, but builds at the end, and was inspired by the American poet Minnie Bruce Pratt.
Adore Life is the follow-up to 2013’s acclaimed debut album, Silence Yourself (not counting 2014’s Words to the Blind, their collaborative album with Bo Ningen). The band recorded the album last April in London with producer Johnny Hostile and engineer Richard Woodcraft. They mixed the album in Copenhagen with Danish electronic producer Trentemøller. Back in August the band shared a teaser trailer for the album that featured Henry Rollins.
Album: Adore Life
Release Date: January 22nd
When Savages began work on their second LP, the U.K. post-punks took on a new challenge: love songs, which singer Jehnny Beth was inspired to write after being showered with good vibes from crowds around the world. Adore Life is just as visceral as Savages‘ debut. “If there were beautiful lyrics, we wanted it to be contradicted by something nasty or aggressive,” bassist Ayse Hassan says.
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