Brooklyn’s SAVAK returned with their new album SQUAWK!, last week via Ernest Jenning Record Co. / Peculiar Works Music. It’s their seventh album, one that sees the band expand their sound and reach into a new territory.
Single “No Man’s Island” is a highlight, featuring 70s classic rock guitar riffs with a Lou Reed quality to its style and vocal delivery that just radiates cool and sounds like its from a different era when life was just much simpler. It’s a perfect song to cool down with this summer.
Another pre-release single “American Vernacular” takes the album into a different place, with a hypnotic atmosphere that is equal parts haunted, and fulled with a cinematic sense of awe and wonder that is a great shift following “No Man’s Island.”
Then there’s “Tomorrow And The Day After”, a track that channels classic 90s indie rockers that blends elements of R.E.M. with Mission Of Burma with a raw nature that hits with authority.
You can find the album streaming and available to buy at Bandcamp, and their upcoming tour dates below.
June 19th – Avalon – Catskill, NY
June 20th – Hamden, CT – Cellar on Treadwell
June 21st – Boston, MA – O’Brien’s
July 25th – Washington DC – Black Cat
July 26 – Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA – early show
July 26th – Philadelphia, PA – PhilaMOCA – late show – SOLD OUT
July 27th – Queens, NY – TV Eye
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