Savages’ Fay Milton announces debut Goddess album with haunting single ‘Shadows’

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Savages‘ drummer Fay Milton has announced her debut album as Goddess and released the haunting new single ‘Shadows’. Check it out below.Goddess is a new collaborative project curated and produced by Milton.

The debut, self-titled album will be released on May 30 via Bella Union, and you can pre-order it here.Alongside the album announcement, Goddess has shared the first single ‘Shadows’, which features vocals from Ex:RE – Elena Tonra of Daughter‘s solo project – as well as pianist Hinako Omori and Savages bassist Ayse Hassan.Speaking about the song, Milton said: “What I love about this track is that it’s got this darkness and lightness at the same time.

It’s got this real thunder and lightning energy. There’s a sparkly piano, very light and delicate, and then this noise bass that runs through it.

Elena’s vocal is just completely exquisite, as well as her lyrics.”Check out the dreamy music video below.Milton explained that Goddess stemmed “from the curiosity of what happens when you bring creative spirits together in interesting new combinations.”“With this project, I have come out from behind the drums and stepped into the producer role, allowing the feminine energy to run strong from the start to the finish of the creative process”, she said.It comes after Savages announced in 2016 that they would be “taking a break” to pursue other projects.“Around the time that Savages went on hiatus, I started thinking about the climate crisis and realizing how existential it is,” Milton shared in a press release.She formed Music Declares Emergency in 2019, which describes itself as “a group of artists, music industry professionals and organisations that stand together to declare a climate and ecological emergency and call for an.