Savages To Release 'Adore Life' In January

Savages will release their new album early next year.

‘Adore Life’, the follow up to ‘Silence Yourself’, is out on January 22 through Matador and was recorded with producer Johnny Hostile and engineer Richard Woodcraft in London, before being mixed by Anders Trentemøller in Copenhagen.

In a statement accompanying the news, Savages said:

“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.”

The band have also released a video for The Answer, which finds the band - Ayşe Hassan, Fay Milton, Gemma Thompson and Jehnny Beth - amid their audience as Giorgio Testi’s camera swoops between performers and crowd members. Discussing it, they said:

“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.”

Meanwhile, the band will play an 8am show at the 100 Club in London on January 26 to mark the album’s release. Head here for pre-order and ticket details.

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