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10.0
54081
10.0 |
Art Rocker
The most confidently produced record all year so far and strives for something much more than most indie acts have done in recent memory
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10.0
54179
10.0 |
Independent on Sunday
Post-millennial indie boy-rock has taken a savage beating here. And it may prove the best it’s ever had
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10.0
54819
10.0 |
Time Out
The sounds may be old, but they’ve been reassembled into a record that’s deep and primal enough to sound shockingly new
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9.1
54353
9.1 |
Pretty Much Amazing
You will shut up and listen, and Savages dare you to try and look away
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9.0
54129
9.0 |
The Quietus
Silence Yourself is the manifestation of a formidable spirit, a sense that everything they do is done with great purity of intent, and a brilliant sex, life and death album of a kind rarely seen these days
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9.0
54079
9.0 |
musicOMH
Silence Yourself is a great record. Powerful, determined and precise
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9.0
54080
9.0 |
Clash
There is a modern, angry masterpiece in here
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9.0
54183
9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Savages compel you to sit and focus on their music when you listen to it – frankly it’s hard not to – but it’s something they hammer home nonetheless
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8.7
54186
8.7 |
Pitchfork
The album cuts through a world of chatter and distraction because it practices what it preaches, transmitting its message directly through the primal, bone-rattling force of its songs
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8.4
54348
8.4 |
Paste Magazine
Silence Yourself evokes very real sensory and emotional connections, leaving it up to you to get something out of it
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8.1
54352
8.1 |
Beats Per Minute
The common denominator is the minimalist approach to composition: make it poignant, lean, no-bullshit. Each instrument is voluminous and lucid. There is no time wasted, no sound or word without purpose
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8.0
54359
8.0 |
All Music
Silence Yourself doesn't provide the full Savages experience, but it offers more than enough to make it a powerful debut that suggests they'll become an even more distinctive force to be reckoned with over time
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8.0
54426
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
The strongest tracks are the album’s closers: the alienated, claustrophobic single “Husbands”, and “Marshal Dear”
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8.0
54269
8.0 |
Spin
A 38-minute, estrogen-powered post-punk barrage
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8.0
54599
8.0 |
No Ripcord
This year’s best debut record so far
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8.0
54605
8.0 |
State
Debut albums rarely get away with such provocation
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8.0
54187
8.0 |
PopMatters
With one foot in the here-and-now and the next already stepping into the future on Silence Yourself, Savages are not only making the statement that they are here, but that they are here to stay
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8.0
54190
8.0 |
Under The Radar
A record that conjures up something truly unique. That something? A buzz band out-buzzing the buzz
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8.0
54194
8.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Savages champion essential qualities of music that are too often washed away by the Internet’s slipstream: presence, performance, togetherness, transcendence
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8.0
54078
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Amply weighted for a debut, Silence Yourself comprises a balance of really excellent stuff and the simply very good
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8.0
54171
8.0 |
The Fly
In these times of austerity, Savages’ monochrome angst is 2013’s much-needed reality check
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8.0
54131
8.0 |
The Guardian
What's striking is how easily Savages slip the moorings of their influences and come up with something fresh
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8.0
54133
8.0 |
The Irish Times
Raw power with idiosyncratic pop appeal
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8.0
54082
8.0 |
DIY
That this is Savages’ debut record seems astonishing. It’s an album which demands you listen
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8.0
54083
8.0 |
The Skinny
Who else out there is making staccato, Gang of Four-influenced post-punk with this much attitude?
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8.0
54101
8.0 |
Mojo
Demands you shut up and listen. Compliance is advised. Print edition only
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8.0
54108
8.0 |
NME
It's got 'cult classic' written all over it, but is strangely unloveable
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8.0
54122
8.0 |
Daily Telegraph
While they make no claims to be a wildly original band – they listen to Black Sabbath and they have been described as the all-female Joy Division – what makes them so compelling is their fierce focus
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7.5
54262
7.5 |
A.V. Club
Juxtaposition of dissonance and beauty adds more friction to Silence Yourself’s atmosphere, transforming a potentially monochromatic record into something with intriguing depth
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7.0
54264
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
The precedent is clear: Eighties post-punk, particularly the bony-riff geometry and dublike shadows of Killing Joke and early Siouxsie and the Banshees
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7.0
54803
7.0 |
Fact
Whether you’ll enjoy Silence Yourself depends largely on your taste for post-punk and no wave; Savages may draw inspiration from some of the best alternative music of the last thirty years but they can be derivative to a fault
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7.0
54813
7.0 |
FasterLouder
Many bands suffer from overt premature praise but like Interpol, The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Savages have backed it up with a very strong and confident debut built on energy, drama and intensity
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6.0
54427
6.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Wears its post-punk sonic signifiers like spiky accessories yet fails to engage with the radical artistic sensibilities that underpinned that most fertile of genres
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6.0
54181
6.0 |
The Observer
Silence Yourself reveals Savages to be a cross between the Horrors and Sleater-Kinney (devotion to Wire, lack of male members, stentorian vibrato) with a soupcon of the Knife
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6.0
54164
6.0 |
Q
Silence Yourself documents a spirit and passion that could never be background music. Print edition only
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5.0
54864
5.0 |
Uncut
A disappointing triumph of retro-goth style over substance. Print edition only
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