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Photo – Vince McClelland

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Mistletone is proud to announce that A. Savage will return to Australia’s East Coast for a run of tour dates in November. Described by Stereogum as having “sharp writing and [a] voice distinctive enough that you could recognize them from outer space”, the Parquet Courts frontman will tours in support of his record Several Songs About Fire, out via Rough Trade / Remote Control.

Produced by John Parish in Bristol, Several Songs About Fire is bolstered by the support of Jack Cooper (Modern Nature, Ultimate Painting) and Cate Le Bon, as well as members of Kamikaze Palm Tree & caroline. The end result is tantamount to psychic odyssey, containing a singular irreverence which is stitched together by Savage’s outsize gifts as a lyricist and observer, a quality Parish calls “an emotional openness guarded by a laconic wit.”  Worrying questions of wealth and poverty, self and other, Savage displays the poet’s gift of knowing when to narrate and when to vanish, leaving the listener to their own emotional privacy rather than instructing them how to feel through vertiginous inversions of instrumentation and lyrics.

After more than a decade in New York, Savage left the city and the United States, marking his exit with a masterpiece of maturity and a worthy corollary to his first solo venture, 2017’s Thawing Dawn. Produced by Parish on a 1” 16-track, the album was partially sculpted in the bucolic, nocturnal hush of rural England.  The intimacy of these tracks are refracted by the presence of some of Savage’s closest friends — among them Cate Le Bon — who listened to Savage work on what would become the album during a US tour in 2022. Featuring additional contributions from saxophonist Euan Hinshelwood (Cate Le Bon’s band), drummer Dylan Hadley (Kamikaze Palm Tree, White Fence), and violinist Magdalena McLean (caroline), Several Songs about Fire is a devotional study in tradition — and something all Savage’s own.

Several Songs About Fire stands as an act of nearly libidinal rebellion against a moment when so much of life is the blue light of screens. This is an album whose topic is no less than the sublime: the moments in which a sensory experience becomes a holiness or possession of its own, and the self floats above it.

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A. SAVAGE
Australian Tour 2024

Fri 15 Nov – Howler, Melbourne
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Sat 16 Nov – Town Folk Festival, Castlemaine
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Wed 20 Nov – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney
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Fri 22 Nov – Season Three, Brisbane
(Co-presented by Jet Black Cat Music) (Solo)
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Sat 23 Nov – The Sound Doctor Anglesea
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Stream / Download Several Songs About Fire: HERE

A. SAVAGE
SEVERAL SONGS ABOUT FIRE
Track List

1. Hurtin’ or Healed
2. Elvis in the Army
3. Le Grande Balloon
4. My my, My Dear
5. Riding Cobbles
6. Mountain Time
7. David’s Dead
8. Thanksgiving Prayer
9. My New Green Coat
10. Out Of Focus

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Stream / Purchase: HERE

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Follow A. SAVAGE
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