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Savages
Savages
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""It's such a different record for us,"" singer Tyler Connolly asserts. ""I'm known as the guy who writes all of the 'breakup' songs. It would have been typical to write more, so I did just the opposite. There's something very brutal about our culture. We're so desensitized. I went from writing about crazy women to how screwed up we are. That's the theme.”
Once again teaming with super producer Howard Benson [My Chemical Romance, Halestorm] in the studio, he tapped into the same robust riffing and primal power that coursed through the group's 2008 breakthrough, ""Scars & Souvenirs"". Lyrically, Connolly turned his attention to the state of the world around him and churned out the band's catchiest and most crushing statement yet.
The band don't apologize for anything. The first single ""Drown"" ebbs and flows between a staggering wall of distortion and an infectious chorus from Connolly. The tide comes in with one of the group's biggest anthems.
""I tried to get up every morning and write a song, and that lasted three days before I quit,"" he chuckles. ""I wrote 'Drown' during the second day. It's about being alone and finding contentment within that. It's a metaphor. No one cares if you drown or not. It's based on how I felt at the time.""
Meanwhile, the title track functions as the album's clarion call, and it enlists a chilling spoken word and hypnotic harmony from none other than the legendary Alice Cooper. ""I had never met him before,"" recalls Connolly. ""I got to fly to his house in Phoenix and work on the song. He's a super nice guy. I stole the spoken word idea from Vincent Price in Thriller. Alice killed it. I was so happy to work with him.
Product details
Release Date:
2014-07-25
Publication Date:
2014-07-25
Publisher:
Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH / Hamburg
ISBN13:
0016861756321
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Weight:
101 g
Height:
124 cm
Width:
141 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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