by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
Brooklyn’s SAVAK cannot be stopped and nor should anyone try. Since their debut album, Best of Luck In Future Endeavors, released back in 2016, the band has shared another two albums and an EP, with their fourth album, Rotting Teeth In The Horse’s Mouth due out April 10th. Set for release via Ernest Jenning Record Co. (Built to Spill, King Khan, Blood Warrior), the band have shared singles “Listening,” “What Is Compassion,” and “It’s Mutual,” but in true SAVAK fashion, they’re not done yet. The band - Sohrab Habibion (Obits, Edsel) Michael Jaworski (The Cops, Virgin Islands), and Matt Schulz (Lake Ruth, Holy Fuck) - have decades of experience behind them, but the are still writing music with unbridled urgency and plenty of the era’s current anxieties.
With dread and despair all around, “Vis-A-Vis,” the album’s opener takes a lighter approach and gives us the post-punk anthem we can all dance around our homes to. With a tightly coiled rhythm section and guitars that pay homage to Gang of Four’s early years, SAVAK have created a song bursting with subdued energy and a political bent that chooses hope in it’s jangly warble. The video, directed by Rob Kassabian & DJ, captures the band rocking out at a highway underpass skate-park in what seems to be one of the colder months. Chilly weather doesn’t phase them though, as the band still shred… even with gloves on (consider us impressed)!