Silence Yourself

Ah yes just what this list needs, more post-punk. It's totally fine. As usual with albums I don't really care for, I find a song I really like and go "NOW it's picking up!", and then I switch over to Spotify and see that the album in question has ended and that Spotify has just started a new, better album from a better artist.

I loved this album in theory. It's female rock stuff with great instrumentals but something about it didn't work for me. I started to get tired of it halfway through and it felt way longer than 40 minutes but I'm not sure what exactly it was. I think it's because the vocals didn't really change much through the whole thing and stuck with the operatic modern heavy rock sound.

Post-punk, about 30 years after post-punk. Does that make it post-post-punk? Rating: 2 Playlist track: Husbands Date listened: 29/07/24

Don't like punk and don't particularly like female singers but this shocked me. Absolutely brilliant and only the second album on this list that I've listened to twice in a row 👍

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I really enjoyed this music

Very good! It does sound like Siouxsie.

Love to hear it.

The new crop of post-punkers tend to create impossible - audio-only, that is, not Escher - spaces and Savages are no exception. Silence Yourself is bicameral, two half-albums fairly. The first has plenty of room to grow as the second turns personal. Anthems to shout along to, with a mix that cuts the texture open to expose the vocals. Quite an intense listen by the end.

Never heard of this and came in with no expectations (or maybe low expectations sheerly on the genre label: a lot of "post punk" is not to my tastes). But I liked it a lot. The influences come thick and diverse, but it manages to stay ahead of becoming just a pastiche or mash-up. The lyrics were a little too uniformly Dark and Serious.

Intense! Love it. 4 stars.

They got the post punk thing down.

Heard of Savages but never actually listened to one of their albums before. And boy did I miss out! This is a really strong set of songs, delivered with such drive and energy. It's dark, it's weird, sometimes a bit too weird, but somehow it always comes back to great catchy hooks and riffs. I'm gonna save this one to my favorites list!

A fun vibe. It might have touch on some similar stuff to Riot Grrrl acts, and particularly seems quite similar to Siouxsie and The Banshees. But nice to hear with some modern takes on production and writing.

This was an excellent post-punk album. It is highly influenced by Siouxsie Sioux as well as Joy Division/New Order. The music is driving and expansive, but the vocal delivery really ties the whole thing together.

Solid

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: I am here, No face

If I didn't know better, I would have thought this was a mix of the Kills and Siouxsie. It's got a really heavy beat that helps carry the dark mood. It's nice.

Pretty good 4 3

Nothing wrong with using Siouxsie and the Banshees as a platform for developing singing style and muscular music. Or Joy Division! All good and darkly enjoyable.

The instrumentation here was perfect, just wish there had been some more variation in the vocals – the given riffs/melodies for each track were interesting and raw, but hearing the same word or phrase over them again and again put me off.

This was really solid latter day post-punk that is well executed and highly listenable, especially if you're not getting enough Siouxsie Sioux in your life. Maybe a little too on the nose in their embrace of the genre, but it's nice to see an all-woman band working in this vein. Fave Songs: Husbands, Shut Up, I Am Here, City's Full, No Face

This was alright but the amount of punk I’ve had to go through really makes this less enjoyable to listen to. Kind of ironic how many punk albums are on this list and even user submitted, you’d think it’s the most popular genre and mainstream. Overall this one was pretty good with The female lead and the punk instrumentals. 5.9/10

Shame it never worked out for them

A cool raw energy... very reminiscient of Siouxsie & the Banshees. There's definitely points where the music really hits its groove and drives forward, but it doesn't seem consistent enough to really elevate the whole album.

Not bad, not great to me either. Decent as far as rock albums go, the vocalist almost sounds like Geddy Lee but the music is certainly darker than Rush. I liked a couple tracks, but didn't really do much for me overall. It's fine. Favorite tracks: Marshal Dear, Waiting for a Sign. Album art: Great menacing picture of the band, love that this is a girl band. Feel like I've seen this before, it's strong and memorable. The little poem is crazy. 3/5

I really want to like post-punk, but I just can't. It was fine, but totally forgettable. The over-vibratto of her voice (like Gwen Stefani but an octave lower) was really grating after all the tracks were done; I wanted it to be over. Although I kinda liked Husbands.

Although I like the sound, the vocals me so nervous that I can't listen any longer.

This bored me, so I switched it off without thinking. Had to steer myself into actively listening. Didn't like it. 2/5.

Post-punk. No me ha gustado. Un 2.

Some decent punk vibes here, however it’s tonally monotonous after a few tracks. This could be good, could be. If they just introduced a little more sonic variety. Every song feels like a copy + paste of the last with a slight lyrical tweak.

It's got all the elements I should like. It's spiky, difficult, female fronted and raw. But I feel like it just happened to me rather than giving me anything to hold on to.

Not exactly my type of alternative but it was someone's! No matter the album, even someone who chooses a live album, there's a specialness to these picks. Someone out there wanted people to hear this album because it means something to them. Even an album that's just eh to me, still means more to me than most of the ones we got on the main list.

The musicians are good, the voice however seemed dark or sectarian cult to me. Some musical endings are pure unnecessary stridency.