The Shakes

Recorded live to tape with minimal overdubs at Analogue Catalogue Studios in Newry, Northern Ireland, The Shakes is Savage Mansion’s most exciting record yet – a set of 11 songs which better than ever capture the explosive live energy of a band whose best gig is always their next gig, rooted in a deep well of emotion, and the rigorously thought-through reasoning of writers thoroughly in love with their influences. 

A driving, danceable slice of motorik synth-pop inspired by the Flying Burrito Brothers and Arthur Russell’s book Buddhist Bubblegum, ‘The Shakes’ is the title track from Glasgow-based slanted indie-rock five-piece Savage Mansion’s new album.

The Shakes is full of raw and instinctual playing, happy accidents embraced and not glossed over. It’s the end product of months of patient and painstaking groundwork, Craig working closely with co-songwriter Andrew Macpherson to shape and re-shape ideas, until they represented the best version of the band we’ve heard yet.