Savage Daughters

SLC Dark Stoner Alternative On the surface, Savage Daughters’ sound is fairly straightforward. The trio references storied genres like shoegaze, garage rock and dream pop as influences, and the sound of those styles is easily heard in the brittle guitar tones and straight-ahead rhythms of their tracks. The longer you listen, however, the weirder things get. There’s little, if any, conventional structure to these tracks, many of them full of winding changes and unexpected transitions. On Savage Daughters’ astounding new song, “420 to SLC,” the trio of Summer Sigritz and Alex and Tut Lopez envelops themselves in a fog that shrouds the intersection of fear, pain and ecstasy. Across the song’s runtime, the group rev up and down between tight-knit punk aggression and lead-heavy slow burns, uniting these disparate parts with a web of pinging guitar effects and sludgy reverb. As “420 to SLC” explodes into its final peak, a delirious combination of the song’s electrifying shouted refrain and a stone-faced, spoken word background vocal implodes distant antonyms into a shining, swirling cloud. Loud is soft, fast is slow, anger is happiness—Savage Daughters create music that gargles paradox and spits out self-shaped magic. –SLUG Magazine