SAVAK

Beg Your Pardon 6/10

Thoughtful Brooklyn rockers’ second

The former members of Holy Fuck, The Cops, The Obits and Nation Of Ulysses that make up Savak bring plenty of muscle but also enough experience to known when to step off the throttle and play. Accordingly, they can move from the sub-two minute slammer “Nature Erased” – an anguished attack on social media – to the poppier “2XVoid” and the psychedelic drift of “Agronomy Donime”. Best of the lot are the three jangly, sardonic numbers – “Bad Omen”, “Our Savage Wit”, “They Are Not Like Us” – that sit somewhere around Prefab Sprout and Silver Jews.