A British Import Savages, an all-female rock quartet from London, formed only about a year ago, but their first single, "Husbands," has established the group in London as an angry band in the post-punk vein.
On listening to Beth's panicked yelp on debut single "Husbands", you note the obvious similarity to Siouxsie and the Banshees, yet the singer and Thompson have shared more esoteric tastes.
She yelps out snatches of Savages' psychosexual drama (and single) Husbands – "God I wanna get rid of it, yeah/Rid of it/My house, my bed, my husbands…" – frenzied, syncopated and completely riveting.
Clocking in at 38 minutes, Silence Yourself opens with an excerpt from the John Cassavetes film 'Opening Night', and features brand new recordings of 'Husbands', 'I Am Here' and 'City's Full' - first heard on debut single 'Husbands / Flying To Berlin' and the 'I Am Here' live EP - both previously released on singer Jehnny Beth's record label Pop Noire.
Thanks to Ms. Griffiths, Mack, as she is known, is an appealing heroine, a mother who at the start of the show is suddenly single: her husband, Steve, who ran the camp with her, left her for a much younger Russian aesthetician.
Bessie feels awe and bitterness toward her confident, single-minded husband, and the combination of his hubris and her fear carries them to a surprisingly tender end.
Filing their 2008 taxes as singles, this husband would fall into the 15% tax bracket and his wife would pay in the 25% bracket.
To promote the launch of the album, the record label, who had been working with the band since December 1995, released several singles for "Husband", "Psychofudge", "Cheap", and "Hypersonic" prior to the album release.
Lying amid the deathly silence, burned and bleeding, Mary Jos had a single thought: her husband.
