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SAVAK have shared their new single "Tomorrow And The Day After," taken off the band's upcoming album SQUAWK! out May 30 on Ernest Jenning Recording Co. / Peculiar Works Music. It's the Brooklyn-based band's seventh and most adventurous album yet. Formed in 2015 and forged through years in bands like Obits, Enon, and Holy Fuck, SAVAK continue to push post-punk boundaries with sharp hooks, thoughtful lyrics, and fearless experimentation.

SQUAWK! sees the band expanding their signature mix of jagged riffs, melodic jangle, and left-field textures—think Mission of Burma meets early R.E.M. with a glam twist. From the striking opener “The Moon Over Marine Park” to the ambient drift of “American Vernacular” and the abstract stomp of closer “Empty Age,” this album is SAVAK at their most dynamic.

The band’s Sohrab Habibion on the new single: 

"I was in a coffee shop, where I saw a student feverishly scribbling in a used paperback and was reminded of how my mother really disliked what she considered to be the desecration of books. “I don’t understand why they can’t just use a notebook—now it’s ruined for everyone else!” Years later I was a buyer at a used bookstore, where the policy was strict about not purchasing anything that had been written in. But I also started to see it from the other side. If the book is yours, then who cares what you do with it? Plus it was kind of fascinating to see what was worthy of highlighting or commenting through a stranger’s eyes.

The angle of the song is to look at that gray area between points of view and how confusing it is when you can’t understand the opposing position. The shadows, the misunderstandings, the sense that there is supposed to be a singular and correct take on the world. But these things change. The way we see history is likely quite different from those who experienced it. And the way people tomorrow see what we are

living through now will probably not line up perfectly either. Today’s heroes = tomorrow’s heretics… and vice versa. There’s also a bit of inspiration taken from and a reference to Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

The video for this song gives a nod to books that are being banned. Even a cursory look at the titles in question reveals what a woefully racist, xenophobic, and transmisogynistic the idea is, let alone the flagrant attempt to curtail our freedom of expression."