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  • Summary: The third full-length studio release for the British garage rock band was produced by Jim Sclavunos.
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  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
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  1. Jul 29, 2013
    80
    The Savage Heart is often just that,uncompromisingly breaking new, often bleakly fertile, ground for the band, showing they can still evolve emotionally.
  2. Jul 29, 2013
    80
    At times, it indeed sounds like these songs are coming from a mythical parallel universe where rock'n'roll is still the key of life.
  3. Uncut
    Jul 29, 2013
    80
    The venom and rage of the Jim Jones live experience is captured more effectively on this third album than its predecessors, but there;s also greater depth to the playing and writing. [Nov 2012, p.76]
  4. 80
    He and the four gents in his Revue are here to remind you there's nothing more thrilling than the primal howl of proto-rock'n'roll, and this, their third album, is their most convincing sermon yet.
  5. Jul 29, 2013
    70
    The Savage Heart is a little bit of both, thanks to a band with the smarts, chops, and passion to make something fresh out of the expansive musical fodder that helped lay its rowdy foundation.
  6. Jul 29, 2013
    70
    This third studio album struts in on a crest of rollicking beats and wearing the kind of snarl that even in this new century is likely to delight fans of balls-out, raucous rock‘n’roll.
  7. Mojo
    Jul 29, 2013
    60
    He achieves a delectable balance between affecting and creepy. [Nov 2012, p.85]

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