Savage Republic
SIAM

And here it is: the idea taking shape.

Dedicated to you, pretentious rationalist snob in my slippers. The Savage Republic started the journey a long, long time ago. Practicing and experimenting in the university’s basement, then playing drums and eccentric instruments in the basement of the bar next door.

They anticipated post-rock, were the direct descendants of Faust, and traversed a decade in parallel. Not courageously, just outside. The name "Savage Republic" set sail a long time ago and disappeared for 18 years.

And here is SIAM, an EP that heralds the arrival of a new album: the pioneers, experimenters, scholarly snob kids return. And what do they play? Drums. And what do they play? Tribal/martial industrial-post-kraut psychedelic with an oriental touch. Just like back then: we left them there in '89. Pause, Play: here they are again in 2007. And with the same class.

So then, what's new? Why is there a reason to listen? Where is the innovation?
Never mind: sometimes art is an idea taking shape, it is the shape of an idea. This is what the return to life from the freezing of Savage Republic makes me think. But there's no need to think.