LP Record review:
Les Savy Fav - Go Forth

Les Savy Fav - Go Forth

Band: Les Savy Fav Title: Go Forth Rating: Release Date: 23 October, 2001 Media: LP Record Tracks: 1: Tragic Monsters 2: Reprobate's Resumé 3: Crawling Can Be Beautiful 4: Disco Drive 5: Slip 6: Daily Dares 7: One to Three 8: Pills 9: Adopduction 10: No Sleeves 11: Bloom on Demand

Editoral Review One of the most remarkable acts to ever emerge from America's postpunk melting pot (a gang of sharp-dressed art students and a frenzied, hairy front man who dresses as a pirate), Les Savy Fav bring the art of confrontation back to rock & roll, but barb their brash physical assault with a musical ingenuity and fierce intelligence. Go Forth is the third full-length album from Brooklyn's new-wave bruisers Les Savy Fav. While the Rome (Written Upside Down) EP was the first record to properly capture the Les Savy live sound--a lithe, danceable new-wave rush peppered with electronics--Go Forth adds beats and synthesizer to the tight, jarring musical clatter. Front man Tim Harrington's continues to write enlightening and elliptical lyrics, a frantic mix of cryptic intellectual allusions and cut-and-paste wordplay ("I crave to catch an edge / Break bones and cartilage / Send back the architects of Carthage," he hollers on "One to Three"). With so much of the alternative sector lost to irony, decadence, and self-absorption, Go Forth sounds as pure and true as a missionary's teachings. Become a convert. --Louis Pattison .. You can see a complete list of all Les Savy Fav discography, or go back to the Les Savy Fav tabs