The latest release from Sam & the Savages brings together a very interesting and unique set of genres that seem to interconnect in different ways and in turn, deliver this atmosphere that you end up really getting into and getting attached to and I think that has a lot to do with this kind of personality that it ends up delivering and the way that it's portrayed.
Wait wut. Is an album that brings you surprises around the corners and that's something that I absolutely adore because you don't get it often.
The record brings together a combination of alternative rock, classic rock, elements of live performance and improvisation, electronic, and a vast sort of underbelly that feel almost cinematic in their own way.
This was super fun and by the time you listen to even two tracks off the record, you are definitely expecting the unexpected because each song has its own vibe and comes from its own place although there is again, a sort of confluence between all the songs that make it work and flow.
The record has experimental elements to it and so it's a chunk of music that's created with fewer boundaries than the norm and I think that's super fun because again, it lets you be surprised.
This is avant-garde and a bit outside the box, and I feel like we need a lot more of that in music these days especially all round up in one record.
There are tracks on here that have a really heavy Sonic drive to them with edgy distortion and thrashy undertones and those are the ones that feel more alternative rock and even classic rock influence but there are also songs with a softer, cleaner guitar tone to them as well and the balance between those two elements dynamically is perfect here.
This is a very particularly built record so you have a sort of lo-fi tonality to a lot of the songs but that is also part of the aesthetic of the record as a whole. This is a release that you should be listening to in full so that you get an understanding of what the whole thing has to offer.
There's a lot of personality here and some honesty but you get it in these chunks and when they happen, you're kind of blown away because you didn't expect it and that to me is part of the beauty of an album like this.
Some of these songs are really giving a piece of the songwriter and telling his story so I feel like this whole thing, even songs that are electronic or heavy and thrashing, are based on emotion.
There are a lot of different styles here and the vocals sort of adapt to the intensity and approach of the song as well, so each song has a bit of a different character if there's vocals there.
You get influence of classic kind of grunge elements along with singer-songwriter, and indie rock but there's a lot more going on and there are a lot of layers to be peeled back.
One of my favorite tracks on the record is called "Sometimes Blue" and it really reminds me of old Modest Mouse songs because the vocals are sung with octaves. One low and one high of the same note.
This gives the song A different kind of feeling and adds more to that emotional backbone as well in a way.
A really awesome approach that I feel like pulled me into this song even more.
This release has seven tracks on it with two of them being kind of more like interludes in a way and those are the ones that have a more avant-garde and freeing, completely emotionally approach but they do a really good job of balancing the record out.
I feel like there was a lot of thought behind even the track listing and order of the release.
This is a record that has a way of sticking with you and not in the form of hooks that bounce around in your brain but more in the form of a feeling that you get that sort of lingers with you for a while.
Take a deep swim through this record because it really is a bit of an experience.
See how this affects you and remember where you heard it first.
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