Avec Several Songs About Fire, A. Savage fusionne folk dépouillé, post-punk et rock alternatif dans un album intense et introspectif. Enregistré en dix jours avec John Parish, il mêle guitares acoustiques épurées, saxophone fiévreux et rythmiques brutes pour créer une atmosphère à la fois intime et abrasive. Porté par une écriture poétique et lucide, Savage transforme le quotidien en visions saisissantes, entre influences de Townes Van Zandt et tension new-yorkaise héritée de Parquet Courts. Un disque ardent, où l’émotion brute se heurte à une urgence sonore viscérale
“I imagine myself playing these songs in a small club that is slowly burning,” says A. Savage of Several Songs About Fire, his second solo album. Written largely in the quiet of rural England and recorded quickly on analog tape with producer John Parish, the album is raw, intimate, and urgent — a reflection on escape, transformation, and emotional clarity. Joined by close collaborators like Cate Le Bon and Jack Cooper, Savage crafted songs that could be stripped down to just voice and guitar, preserving their core energy and honesty.
As a lyricist, Savage balances stark observation with poetic restraint, exploring themes of loss, identity, and the mundane as sacred. Influenced by Sybille Baier and Townes Van Zandt, he weaves the ordinary with the mythic, finding divinity in laundromats and debt collectors, and reverence in raw memory. Several Songs About Fire is a defiant, sensory-driven meditation on presence — a sonic artifact that burns with subtlety, wit, and the spiritual chaos of living.