Les Savy Fav

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Les Savy Fav
Outdoor Theatre, Coachella 2008
Outdoor Theatre, Coachella 2008
Background information
Origin New York City, USA
Genre(s) Indie rock
Post-punk revival
Dance-punk
Post-hardcore
Art punk
Years active 1995–present
Label(s) Frenchkiss
Website www.lessavyfav.com/
Members
Tim Harrington
Seth Jabour
Syd Butler
Harrison Haynes
Andrew Reuland
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Les Savy Fav (pronounced lay-SAH-vee-FAHV) is a New York City band that produces an idiosyncratic style of indie rock. Their style is heavily influenced by art rock and post-hardcore.

The group's original line-up, formed in 1995, all met while attending the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island.

The music features abrasive guitar and bass melodies, complemented by singer Tim Harrington's educated, poetic lyrics sung or shouted over the instruments. Harrington's involved lyrics make broad-ranging academic references to such disparate topics as Stockholm syndrome, the architects of Carthage, and palimpsests.

Live shows are punctuated by the antics of frontman Harrington, including kissing multiple audience members and on-stage wardrobe changes. The rest of the band continues to play as if nothing out of the ordinary is happening.

The band started a planned hiatus in mid-2005, which led to speculation that they might have broken up, but lead Harrington confirmed that Les Savy Fav would return [1], and indeed they did, playing a live performance at the British All Tomorrow's Parties festival in May 2007. The band booked studio time in November 2006 to record their fourth full length, Let's Stay Friends, which was released September 18, 2007. The band is running a video contest on YouTube for "The Equestrian," a song from their new album. [2][3]. The band performed live on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on January 31, 2008.

Bass player Syd Butler is also the owner of French Kiss Records.

Contents

Members

Former members

Discography

Studio albums

EPs

Live albums

Compilations

Singles

  • Split Single, with The Apes and The Mars Volta; Les Savy Fav contribute Four Divided by One (2002, Southern Records)
  • Accidental Deaths, features Hit by Car and Hit by Train (2006, Rococo Records)
  • Plagues & Snakes; Australian Tour EP, features Raging in the Plague Age and Wake Up a Snake (2006, PopFrenzy Records)
  • What Would Wolves Do?, features What Would Wolves Do? and The Year Before The Year 2000 (2007, Wichita Records)
  • Patty Lee, features Patty Lee and The Sweat Descends (2008, Wichita Records)

Trivia

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  • Their song "Hold Onto Your Genre" is featured in the soundtrack to MLB 2K7, as well as commercials for the game.
  • The Derry/London based band Jetplane Landing included a song on their 2007 album Backlash Cop entitled "Why Do They Never Play Les Savy Fav On The Radio?"
  • Their song "The Sweat Descends" appears on the online rhythm game Audition Online and on the soundtrack to College Hoops 2K7. It also was recently covered by the indie rock band Art In Manila, led by former Azure Ray member, Orenda Fink on their 2007 album, Set The Woods On Fire.
  • "The Equestrian" is featured in the soundtrack to NHL 2K8.
  • Tim Harrington disguised himself as a mosquito for the nothing but nets campaign video.
  • Their song Raging in the Plague Age appears in Grand Theft Auto 4 on ingame radio station Radio Broker.
  • [4] In 2007, Tim Harrington acted in a skit for AOL's The DL where he interviewed for a job at AOL.

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