Les Savy Fav – OUI, LSF[Opaque Evergreen LP]

Description

Almost out of necessity, Les Savy Favs sixth LP was born in a pocket reality: singer Tim Harringtons Brooklyn attic. A freaky barn, as he calls it, the room was built over the ruins of black mold and plywood, a de facto studio. Different from anywhere theyd ever recorded, the space allowed for a much-needed rebirth for the long-running post-hardcore band. In that in-between, they pieced together what would become their latest evolution, OUI, LSF, growing the albums title and cover art out of a patch of grass. The record grew organically literally and figuratively, Harrington notes wryly.

Its impossible to talk about Les Savy Favs latest without acknowledging that its been more than 10 years since the guys released 2010s Root for Ruin. But its not like they had a messy breakup or quit to become bankers. They just had a lot of living to do. When we finished our last record, there was a sense that if we were going to do more, we wanted to do something more ambitious, Harrington says. I think it took us a while to even get in a space where that was possible. In the interim, the band has been busy building growing their families, taking and losing jobs, and living through the various ecstatic and hideous aspects of growing older. Remember, these five men Harrington, Seth Jabour, Syd Butler, Harrison Haynes, Andrew Reuland have been friends and collaborators since 1995, when they attended Rhode Island School of Design.

The resulting album is a glorious mix of tragedy and comedy studded with nods to the bands eclectic musical taste delightfully weird and utterly them, tripping from ghostly bops to ruminations on love and loss to some seriously debauched and crazy nights. A decade may have passed, but Les Savy Fav is still growing like their musical range, like the seeds that grew into their album art, like their legacy. Heres to 10 more years of delicious lunacy.

Tracklist:

1. Guzzle Blood
2. Limo Scene
3. Void Moon
4. Mischief Night
5. What We Don’t Don’t Want
6. Legendary Tippers
7. Dawn Patrol
8. Good Things Are Good
9. Racing Bees
10. Don’t Mind Me
11. Oi! Division
12. Barbs
13. Nihilists
14. World Got Great

UPC: 197190679724
Label: French Kiss
Release Date: 5.10.24
Format: Vinyl