Artwork: The sleeve was conceived after Beth and Tom Hingston, who also
created the cover artwork of Massive Attack’s Mezzanine and Nick Cave’s Push
the Sky Away, met. Beth told him she started doing boxing workouts and that
she was fascinated by some photographs of bodybuilders and that’s how the
idea of the LP’s impressive image came about.
Pitchfork says: “‘To Love Is To Live’ not a Savages record by another name. Beth sidelines
the grimy, distorted guitar and reaches for a more diverse palette, including strobe-like synths, downy woodwinds, and inscrutable snippets of found sound. But there are constants: ‘To Love To Live’ is rife with the same livewire intensity, the same embrace of tensions and apparent contradictions. Lyrically and musically, it vacillates between the corporeal and the ethereal, prudence and excess, softness and severity.” Full reviewhere.
Keywords: genuine and impassioned emotions, goosebumps tension, VOICE,
dark brightness, blood sweat and fears, musical Odyssey, brilliant album artwork Key phrase: “I used to be a human being / Now I live in the web.” Key tracks:I Am The Man / Heroine / Innocence / We Will Sin Together / How Could You / Human
