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March 03, 2005
Nrthrn. 50'
Les Savy Fav - The Sweat Descends
My writing skills are hovering around zero today, so this will be short.
Listen to the beginning and you'll hear, at second 17, the sound of a guitar performing an algorithm that bends around and consumes itself. Gorgeous. Jabour is almost without parallel as far as post-punk guitar players go. Harrington (lead singer) is thoroughly in full Harringtonist form here: "my tight young skin/covers up a sick palimpsest". Pretty much growling when he says that. He has such a versatile voice: exhorting, cooing, conversing, yelling. All over the map. I'm disappointed to hear that Les Savy Fav are only going to make one more album (probably) of "slow, pretty stuff", but at least they're going out on a high note with "Inches" (which 'Sweat Descends' is taken from). [BUY]
Posted by matt at March 3, 2005 08:00 AM