Monday, September 15, 2008

20. Savage Republic - Ceremonial (1985)


Savage Republic is one of the few great post-punk bands of the 80s still releasing quality material, although they've yet to top 1985's Ceremonial. In the beginning their work was typical harsh sounding post-punk with an industrial hint and strange chanted lyrics being their gimmick or spin on that style, but as they went on that industrial side grew to be more than a hint as they explored the unique instrumental drone for which they became known. Over the eight tracks on this album - some releases have nine, including the track "Valetta" from the Trudge EP, but this one doesn't because I'm bad with computers - Savage Republic show off both the hypnotic drone of later releases and the post-punk jams in the vein of New Order or The Pop Group that made up their early work in a combination not matched since. The whole thing is great but the tracks Andelusia, Walking Backwards, and, one of my all time favourite songs, Dionysius, are the most memorable. Fun and fast songs like those have a broad appeal to fans of more pop-ish or dance-y music and to anyone into noise, drone, and industrial.


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2 comments:

wett butt said...

i was gonna post a savage republic album...you piece of shit..fucking dick..fuck fyou

Mobilization.com said...

Hey, could you please remove all the Savage Republic downloads. They are all in print now and available at Mobilization.com. We are a very tiny completely independent label run by members of the band. We do not sell very many copies, and we make samples available for free on myspace.com, mobilization.com and youtube.

Thanks! :)

-Savage Republic