Salem - I'm Still in the Night EP reviews
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| Pitchfork |
 Remember these guys? Following Salem's conversation-starting debut album, last year's King Night, they embarked on a headlining U.S. tour; counted Courtney Love and Liv Tyler as celebrity hangers-on/onlookers (respectively); posed for some stylish pictures that revealed band member Heather Marlatt's pregnancy; made a meaningless video for King Night's title track with Jann Wenner's son Theo; offered a horrible Britney Spears remix; and gave a performance at this year's Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona that made their infamous 2010 SXSW appearance sound like Live Rust by comparison.
But whatever you think of King Night, the album is still the definitive version of the often imitated sound that Salem brought on the scene. The proper full-length follow-up to King Night is due some time in 2012, and there have been rumors that Salem are pursuing a different direction for the record; the band's latest EP, I'm Still in the Night, carries no indication that they're trying to branch out.
True to its title, the four-track EP mostly feels like a collection of songs that didn't make the LP's cut. I'm Still in the Night is more polished in terms of production, from the clipped howls that open the EP to the acid-rain synths of "Baby Ratta", and it includes a seven-minute cover of electronic pop collective Alice DeeJay's immortal 1998 trance anthem "Better Off Alone". The cover doesn't come close to matching the original (what does?), but there's something perversely appealing about Salem draping a simplistic "why won't you give your love to me" anthem in their own dingy, smirking, loner outlook. Mercifully, Salem forgo Jack Donoghue's mush-mouthed rapping until I'm Still in the Night's closing track, "Krawl", which finds him rambling about Slurpees, global warming, and how "your bitch, she could suck a dick for me." True to form, it's repugnant on any number of levels....full text |
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| Earmilk |
| After last nights new moon Salem decided to remove their mysterious shawl and join the black mass. The unannounced I'm Still In the Night EP features four sparse new tracks that will take control. Hip Hop drums like usual and those demonic and nightmare vocals give Salem a even more defined sound. As they Drag out the Trance hit Better Off Alone the wicked vibes continue and the sadness burrows. Salem's back from the dead. You can buy a Digital of Itunes or Pre-order a 12" off I Am Sound Records....full text |
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| Vinylmeltdown |
| Salem return’s with their 4 track EP “I’m Still In The Night”. The first time I heard Salem was through their Fader performance and like many had little faith in the group going farther, So when they came through Toronto to perform I figured it would be a fun evening of mockery and snickering..it wasn’t, I left the concert one of Salems die-hard supporters after being hypnotized by their live show getting drawn in by Heather’s etheral voice and Jack’s raspy drawl. It’s been sometime since their last release and seemingly out of nowhere they release this EP, no complaints though as their sound remains the same in all of it’s dark beauty....full text |
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