Hot on the heels of releasing new single “Legendary Tippers” , Les Savy Fav are back with their first new album in 14 years!
Almost out of necessity, Les Savy Fav’s sixth LP was born in a pocket reality: singer Tim Harrington’s Brooklyn attic. “A freaky barn,” as he calls it, the room was built over the ruins of black mould and plywood, a de facto studio. Different from anywhere they’d 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 album’s title and cover art out of a patch of grass. “The record grew organically — literally and figuratively,” Harrington notes wryly.
The Brooklyn group has shared the new song “Guzzle Blood” alongside an animated music video by Christy Karacas. Singer Tim Harrington described the song as dropping “you into the bottom of a dark well. In a lot of ways, the rest of the record is about the things we do to climb back out.”
Though members Harrington, Seth Jabour, Syd Butler, Harrison Haynes, and Andrew Reuland have been making music together since 1995, they didn’t want to rely on well-established strokes for “Oui, Lsf”. “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 said. “I think it took us a while to even get in a space where that was possible.”
Oui, LSF, the follow-up to 2010’s “Root for Ruin” and the band’s sixth full-length LP overall, spans 14 songs, “Oui, LSF” arrives May 10th (via Frenchkiss/The Orchard).
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