Back in 2013, Sufjan Stevens took to Tumblr to trash the typography on the cover of Savages’ debut album, Silence Yourself. “The very cool SAVAGES has allowed a very uncool typographical blunder on its LP cover,” he wrote. “Who the Fraggle designed this?” (He later backtracked a bit, writing “I will never forgive your awkward italics, but I will forever sing your anthems to my children’s children.”)
Three years later, Savages’ Jehnny Beth has responded, with comments made on her Beats 1 radio show “Start Making Sense,” airing tonight. When a listener requested that she play “Impossible Soul,” from Stevens’ 2010 album The Age of Adz, she refused, saying that not only would it not make sense to play a 25-minute-long song on the radio, but also that Stevens was more or less banned from her show because of his remarks about the artwork.
“I don’t think I’d like to play some Sufjan Stevens on my show anyway,” she said. “I remember when my first record with Savages came out. He wrote a quite funny blog post about how much he hated our album cover. He went into quite extensive detail—the font…everything. It was cute, especially as I was looking at his own album covers. Mmm, I must say, I was not really very impressed.” Listen to the clip below.
Sufjan and Savages will perform on the same day (Saturday, July 16) at this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago. Buy tickets here.
Watch Savages perform at the 2013 festival:
Source: Pitchfork – News
