SAVAK is on its seventh album now, long enough that we should maybe forget our obsession with where its members came from (Obits, Edsel, The Cops, Holy Fuck, Enon) and concentrate on where they’re going. Decades of playing time in the aughts and 1990s’ best loved post-punk/art-fucked-garage bands has certainly honed their skills, but tight competence is less a box than a springboard. They’re bouncing off in all directions on the excellent Squawk! without ever flailing out of control.
Dusted unpacked the dual songwriter structure of SAVAK last time out, noting that while Sohrab Habibion and Michael Jaworski come from slightly different parts of punk rock universe, they now meet in a fruitful middle.
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