“Sometimes a band arrives whose music bursts with so much energy that from the very first listen they’re completely compelling. Nashville’s Savoy Motel are one such band. Original, they’re not. Something like a blend of glam rock, garage rock and buzzy pop, their whole sound and aesthetic is lifted lock stock and barrel from the early seventies. But it’s all done so well that this thoroughly retro ”
“Savoy Motel recreate the sounds of the ’70s using the ’90s pastiche techniques of Beck, Ween, and Royal Trux, compacting glam-rock, southern boogie, and Stax sax stabs into 8-bit videogame proportions.”
