Savage Sister

In my head, the place where secrets go to wither, hanging on to the vine of a low IQ, at least once-a-day I experience what I've dubbed the "Judd Nelson Rebel-Unity-Underdog-Sunset Fist Pump Of Temporary Social Victory." I used to want a "Breakfast Club" kind of life: Filled with discovery, governed by no one, immune to Monday. That daydream died the day I paid my first utility bill; it became not only obsolete, but a distraction from what mattered. Namely: Paying bills and being "boring."

In this 'Fog of War' (my jocular term of endearment for domesticity), it is an uncomplicated task to altogether lose sight of my daydream's headstone. Often times I'm guided back by bits of 8-bit beauty, but this recently-passed twelve-month session it's been the windswept whine of Savage Sister's Chloe Lundgren. Her voice is a bridge, an inveterate intermediary, between the whimsy of a "Waking Life" and actually waking up and living a life. Huge Moves holds the hands of Savage Sister's earlier releases; most notably last year's self-titled, sanguine LP along with one of their earliest forays into the fold: The immaculate single "Fortress."

Huge Moves title track of the same name comes hurtling into your headspace; Michael Tenzer's cathedral-ceiling-guitar-chord-plucking and Caitlin Klask's Krispy Kreme-sticky, florid bass notes eddying Chloe Lundgren's vaunted vocals. Recently, I was stoned at the beach watching the women and water while drifting along the horizon Huge Moves main, driving melody inhaled and exhaled with me. On Huge Moves's heels is the should've-been-stem-winder "Composure"; in a way, it is the dust settling. Affording me the opportunity of regaining my own perhaps, and, subtly snapshotting Savage Sister's seething segues.

Rounding out Savage Sister's Huge Moves 7" is doubtlessly, ironically their paean to what I can only assume is the joke of accessibility: "Little Claws." Sure, it's uptempo by Savage Sister standards, but that's only because I contemplated suicide 299 instead of 300 times upon hearing it. Someone spiked the punch with Chloe Lundgren's sparse, sparkling, sallow soprano and the only people pirouetting are the ones doing it by themselves. Huge Moves is another humongous accomplishment for Savage Sister and it proves that 7" is far above average.

Huge Moves 7" is out now on Chicago-based micro-cassette label Wild Patterns.