Friday, October 26, 2007

Les Savy Fav's new album discussed. Their date at Pearl Street on Saturday is assured. Your attendance is suggested.

Six years since its last album, the sonically rewarding Les Savy Fav scratches where you didn't even know it itched on their new LP Let’s Stay Friends. The album "defies the suffocating outside forces which shatter innocence and youthful enthusiasm by confronting the cutthroat nature of a rapidly disintegrating world" says Ron bally of HARP magazine. Despite the prolonged breath between albums, LSV has matured or perhaps simply matriculated, and this renewed energy and greater sophistication sees the Rhode Island-drawn, math-rock semi-legends still turning in the head-scratching parallelograms and complex rythmic structures that had critics giving them high marks. Respectfully embracing Fugazi and Mission of Burma in past endeavors, Les Savy Fav now cautiously acknowledges Shellac , Gang of Four, and even Echo and the Bunnymen. The sardonic one-liners amidst the poetry of enthused desperation are a signature of singer Tim Harrington who really gets into the performance. If you are shy, maybe don't be right up front. LSV will be at the Pearl Street Ballroom Saturday night, show starts at 8:30 with Northampton's The Bunnies and Boston's Hallelujah The Hills. -Jim Neill

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