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  • Summary: The fourth full-length release for the San Francisco artist features 19 tracks that were originally released as part of five separate EPs.
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  1. Mar 31, 2017
    80
    The messages of richly-orchestrated missives like Gun Clap Hero deserve to be heard; hopefully their contagious settings will take them to the masses.
  2. Feb 17, 2017
    80
    Savage Times is indeed raw, desperate, and chock-full of new ideas and sounds, making this a creative breakout for El Khatib.
  3. Feb 17, 2017
    70
    As a whole, Savage Times is a chaotic, yet interesting album.
  4. Uncut
    Feb 17, 2017
    70
    Savage Times inevitably captures the tenor of its times as the Left Coast watched America turn rightward. [Mar 2017, p.26]
  5. 65
    Listeners may not like the whole album--but they’ll almost definitely love it in parts.
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  1. Sep 19, 2017
    9
    The album is chaotic, raw, and seemingly all over the place yet it somehow maintains a cohesive identity throughout. There are clearThe album is chaotic, raw, and seemingly all over the place yet it somehow maintains a cohesive identity throughout. There are clear old-school blues and punk influences to Savage Times yet it simultaneously manages to have one of the most innovative and new sounds in recent rock. The album seems to be built around contradictions that shouldn't work, yet somehow do. Expand