Alas Salvation

Yak - Alas Salvation
Critic Score
Based on 14 reviews
2016 Ratings: #123 / 1004
User Score
Based on 84 ratings
2016 Rank: #366
Liked by 1 person
May 13, 2016 / Release Date
LP / Format
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
DIY

With ‘Alas Salvation’, they’ve set a marker for every borderline-insane newcomer emerging in the next decade.

85
The 405
As we're thrown directly and unmercifully into 'Curtain Twitcher', we're already heavily bruised from the first half of the album, and will have to wait until 'Take It' to finally take a breath.
80
Drowned in Sound
Yak have nailed their debut album, and exceeded the high expectations put on them from the beginning. Don't let them pass you by.
80
NME
Every so often a new band will arrive clamouring that guitar music isn’t dead, as if they’re mid-CPR. Yak have crash-landed clutching its still-beating heart, wearing an irrepressible grin.
80
The Guardian
Everything’s in the red, the guitars sound as if they wondered what it would sound like if you layered 60s garage rock, Stooges-style noise, 70s punk and a couple of pneumatic drills on top of each other: it’s like being run over by a steamroller for 41 minutes, but in a good way.
70
No Ripcord

Stoner-rock meshes with glam-punk in short, piercing bursts, never allowing the influences to make an impression greater than the one that Yak themselves are thrusting menacingly into your face. Yak haven’t reinvented the wheel, but their work is invigorating in its own right.

65
Under the Radar
Sure, it's a fun game to play: "Oh, there's Radiohead, and The White Stripes! And Spiritualized, and Nick Cave." The individual parts form a tasteful and varied list of NME catnip, but prove ultimately distracting on an otherwise engaging debut.
rosevean
78

Moderate noise and proper distortion

#2 Hungry Heart / #3 Use Somebody / #7 Take It
#8 Harbour the Feeling / #9 Alas Salvation / #11 Doo Wah

GABRIELinHELL
80

Very good

50

"¿Por qué hacer música si se puede hacer ruido?"

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Added on: February 9, 2016