Savages “Adore Life” 2016. Matador Records. We’re heading to High Noon Saloon in Madison tonight to see the Savages play and I’m pretty excited to hear this all-women British band play blistering, raucous punk-inspired rock. They formed in late 2011, released their debut album Silence Yourself in 2013 and have been compared to PiL, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Swans and PJ Harvey. On the track “Adore,” with its ‘low-slung, swaggering tempo,’ strains of poet-punk queen Patti Smith also come through. “Slowing Down the World” has a hypnotic beat and raw psychedelic guitar which swirls into a beautiful meltdown as Jehnny Beth howls “Is it for you I love, Is it for you I hide, Is it for you I leave someone behind.” The track “Surrender” definitely has shades of dark wave Siouxsie-style. Frustration and anger bubbles beautifully to the surface on “I Need Something New” – “I’m trying my best to make it possible, Everyday I’m kicking the wall, kicking the wall..Coz I need something new.”  I know I’m probably going to need new earplugs after tonight’s show as I am expecting a brain-melting aural assault.