Barrence Whitfield & The Savages - Soul Flowers Of TitanFrom a far out moon beyond the rings of Saturn to a dingy studio in Cincinnati, Barrence Whitfield and the Savages' new platter embraces a cosmic and groovy unification. It's a wild, electric phantasmagoria of blues, rock, garage, and soul; it blasts off into diverse orbits only to come back together into a singular Savage cosmology. BW&S shot out of Boston in the mid '80s with the force of a rocket ship. Through their sweaty dance party shows and

This is definitely Shearwater's biggest and loudest record - it's easy to imagine these songs roaring from the stage - but it's also their most detailed and intricate one

among them the Morricone-like opener

Jerry Jackson etc etc

Coming from Cocker

contempt for authority

they have released three very different records: a split 12‰۝ with Thee Oh Sees

as if the entire album was a genre exercise

and what went down onto tape

a song that displays Reznors trademark whisper / scream vocal dynamic throughout

aka Josh Tillman

or for not being reverent

Second Request is painted by Eastern drones and psychedelic tangents