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Les Savy Fav - Root for Ruin
Released: 13/09/2010
Wichita
For a group most widely acknowledged for their notoriously unhinged, usually half-dressed, overweight and bearded frontman, Les Savy Fav's music is surprisingly mild. Their original post-hardcore sound has given way to a more pop-orientated angularity that should still please their loyal fanbase.
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80 %
allmusic“The band's tightest and most polished album yet...” This slower, more melodic approach really shines on “Let’s Get Out of Here,” a laid-back, Pixies-influenced track that almost casually rises and falls, showing off the band's ability to take a chord progression and mine it for all its worth...
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80 %
Guardian“Age hasn't withered these New York art-punk veterans...” Building on 2007's belated breakthrough album Let's Stay Friends, their fifth LP bristles with self-assurance, perfectly balancing the primal and the poppy as it veers from soaring, Pixies-like crowd-pleasers to no-wave discord...
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70 %
MusicOMH“Les Savy Fav haven't done too badly...” The question that hangs heavy on any band who've been around for nearly 15 years, is whether or not they've got anything left to give. From the opening seconds of Root To Ruin Les Savy Fav seek to answer this question quickly...
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70 %
Drowned In Sound“Expect no changes here...” True, this album isn’t a step forward for LSF, and it’s marginally less vital than Let’s Stay Friends, but LSF are a step forward for the music we grew up with, so keep listening; these are our songs...
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60%
Dusted Magazine“They've finally delivered an album worth shrugging about... ” As good as Les Savy Fav is as a unit, the band’s blessing is that they have a guitar player in Jabour who’s wildly creative and a frontman in Harrington who’s simply wild. The band’s curse is the same...
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72 %
Pitchfork“They excel at constructing miniature explosions of songs...” This band surely has some creative juice left in them. Let's hope they utilize it well in the future, because Les Savy Fav simply being Les Savy Fav can't retain its charm forever...
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