Les Savy Fav - Inches
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Artist: Les Savy FavEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-04-20
Music Label: French Kiss
Soundtracks:
- Meet Me in the Dollar Bin
- Hold On to Your Genre
- We'll Make a Lover of You
- Fading Vibes
- The Sweat Descends
- Knowing How the World Works
- Hello Halo, Goodbye Glands
- Obsessed With The Excess
- One Way Widow
- Yawn. Yawn, Yawn
- No Sleeves
- Reprobates Resume
- Reformat (Live)
- Reformat (Dramatic Reading)
- Bringing Us Down
- Our Coastal Hymn
- Blackouts on Thursday
- Rodeo
Free Music Notes for Inches
Free Music Review: Unconventional, varied noise-rock
Hit: 4 Stars
I was introduced to this album during late November of '07. It is a compilation of Les Savy Fav's various 7" LPs. As such, each of the tracks sound wildly different from one another, and there is a progression of their sound here.
As many have said, first-time listeners may have trouble wrapping their mind around it. The reason is that Les Savy Fav eschew conventional rock form in favor of unique vocals, furious riffs of justice, and a little dash of self-indulgence thrown in. Most conventional rock songs follow a predictable pattern of verses, followed by chorus, followed by more verses, etc. The main verses may have different lyrical content, but are sung the exact same way. Think Nirvana's 'Come As You Are' as a good example of this. The reason I explain is that Les Savy Fav, as a general rule, seem to throw this out of the window completely. For example, on "Reprobates Resume", the catchy chorus of 'please go easy on me' doesn't kick in until the last minute of the song, where it ends the track. Other times, the chorus starts off the song, such as in 'Meet Me at the Dollar Bin'. Many songs change tempo, or take a different direction midway through the song.
Les Savy Fav's frontman is a great lyricist, offering up inventive, fresh lyrics. He also has a penchant for self-indulgence. Some of the tracks, notably 'Hello Halo, Goodbye Glands', 'Knowing How The World Works', 'The Sweat Descends', have long, repeated stretches of the same riffs, or seem to have an ending that goes on for far too long. They still make it work on those tracks, though, and it gives them a stylistic flair that's makes you wonder what's going to happen next.
The guitar-work and drum-work are the real stars here. These riffs are so addictive you won't be able to help moving your arms and fingers into position and imitating with your best rock face. They're that good. They pound when they need to, and hypnotize when they don't.
This album is good enough to make me want to check out their other albums. If you're a fan of alt rock, noise rock, etc. then you would do well to give this album AT LEAST 3 listens.
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