#554 Savages & Opinions on Maxwell & DJ Shadow
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Sound Opinions
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The London-based quartet Savages made a stunning debut with Silence Yourself in 2013 and established a reputation as a formidable live act. On the 2016 followup Adore Life, the brooding post-punk band tackles something new: love songs. Savages joins hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot for a conversation and live performance. Plus, reviews of the new albums from Maxwell and DJ Shadow.
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| 0:00.0 | What happened to music that meant something? |
| 0:03.0 | The Who at the Kingdom or a kiss at the Coliseum? |
| 0:07.0 | Where is the Misty Mountain Hop? Where is the smoke on the water? |
| 0:12.0 | Where is the Iron man of today. Hey, this is not a test. This is Rock and Roll. On their most recent album, Arc Punk savages channel their sonic intensity into fearless love songs. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Jim De Regattisis and I'm Greg Kot. We'll have an |
| 0:45.2 | in-studio conversation and performance by savages and later we'll review |
| 0:49.6 | albums by electronic artist DJ Shadow and Neo Soul Pioneer Maxwell. |
| 0:54.8 | That's all coming up to sound opinions. |
| 1:10.0 | You're listening to sound opinions with love. You're listening to sound opinions. I'm Jim Deorgatus. My partner is Greg Kott, and that is the song T I W Y G from our guest this week, Savages. This is when you can mess with love. The eyes of storm, |
| 1:24.0 | suffering straight from the guards, no medicine, |
| 1:27.0 | no drugs. |
| 1:28.0 | So we can't mess with love. |
| 1:30.0 | This is we can mess with love. |
| 1:32.0 | This is when you get, it yes, we love. Last week Greg we went through some of our favorite albums of 2016 so far and the glaring |
| 1:36.0 | we went through some of our favorite albums of 2016 so far and the glaring omission that we both held back was Savage's |
| 1:45.8 | sophomore release adore life. We knew we'd be talking with the band and having to |
| 1:50.4 | perform this week. Let's talk about that album for just a second now, Greg. |
| 1:55.0 | I may be a little more prone to hyperbole |
| 1:57.1 | than you are, but I've said this before. |
| 1:59.3 | I say it again. |
| 1:59.9 | I stand by it. |
| 2:00.9 | Savage is the most exciting band I've seen since Nirvana in its prime and |
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