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Savoir Adore Blows The Roof Off Of Death By Audio

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Photo courtesy of Indie Passion.

If you've never heard of Savoir Adore, you will. As long as the Almighty God of Indie Rock is a just and righteous god, the pop rock quartet headed by co-songwriters Paul Hammer and Deidre Muro is fixin' to explode. Their set at Death by Audio on Tuesday drove this home with a wild, pop-inflected vengeance. A few months ago, I stumbled across them opening for Bishop Allen at MHoW, and they were really damn good. But this week they brought out the heavy artillery--an arsenal of new songs from their upcoming full-length debut, In the Wooded Forest--and they proved themselves serious contenders for the title of Most Underrated Band in Brooklyn.

Savoir's brand of fairy tale pop has always been strong in the hooks department, but their new songs had a new level of sophistication and their older songs sounded more fleshed out. The encore, a barn-burning fist-in-the-air anthem with the unlikely title of "Transylvanian Candy Patrol," took advantage of Hammer's ample riffing skills and Muro's spectacularly emotive voice and left the crowd floored (especially a pack of drunken Deidre-admirers behind me, who, once they found out her name, proceeded to chant it at every opportunity). The track (available for free online listening here), is great recorded, but you need to see them live to hear it in all its distorted, Pixies-evoking glory.

P.S. Darwin Deez opened, danced choreographed dances, and sounded great. Plus, their frontman's appearance somehow inhabits the gray area between Hasid and hipster, and, for that alone, they deserve a mention.

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