Name: Several Songs About Fire
Brand: A Savage

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

RT-0428-LPXE

Colour

Purple

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Discogs ID

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Tip On Sleeve

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2023-10-06

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Beggars Group

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

0191402042801

Total Cap

Purple LP

CAT: RT-0428-LP

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Extended format: No

191402042818

Black LP

RT-0428-CD

191402042825

Artist

A Savage

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Rough Trade

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“I imagine myself playing these songs in a small club that is slowly burning,” says A. Savage of his second solo record, <i>Several Songs about Fire</i>. After more than a decade in New York, the co-frontman of Parquet Courts has left the city, marking his exit with a masterpiece of maturity and a worthy corollary to his first solo venture, 2017’s <i>Thawing Dawn</i>. “Fire is something you have to escape from. This album is a burning building, and these songs are things I’d leave behind to save myself.”     

Produced by John Parish on a 1” 16-track in just ten days in Bristol and studded by the support of Cate Le Bon and Jack Cooper (Modern Nature, Ultimate Painting) as well as saxophonist Euan Hinshelwood (Cate Le Bon), drummer Dylan Hadley (Kamikaze Palm Tree, White Fence), and violinist Magdalena McLean (Caroline), Savage’s outsize gifts as a lyricist and observer – a quality Parish calls “an emotional openness guarded by a laconic wit" – shine. Worrying questions of wealth and poverty, self and other, Savage displays the poet’s gift of knowing when to narrate and when to vanish, leaving the listener to their own emotional privacy rather than instructing them how to feel.     

The end result is tantamount to psychic odyssey, with “Elvis in the Army” placing us in a subterranean venue where the livid, ratifying cymbal raises the room’s blood pressure and “Mountain Time”, evoking an austere waltz playing in a desolate house, returning those listening to life. Influenced by Sybille Baier and Townes Van Zandt, Savage joins a canon of songwriters constantly dilating aperture and perspective. In rendering the signage of laundromats and threats of debt collectors as glistering and totemic as the scope of mountains, rivers, seas, and skies, Savage finds hopes and curses in equal measure.

Several Songs About Fire

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Discover Several Songs About Fire by A Savage. Vinyl records with exclusive music. A masterpiece of maturity from the co-frontman of Parquet Courts.