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Les Savy Fav: Oui, LSF review – New York post-punk oddballs make restrained return
The veteran five-piece’s first album in 14 years has flashes of the old thrill, but doesn’t quite hit earlier heights
A thrilling live proposition since the late 1990s, due in large part to the stage magnetism of frontman Tim Harrington, the New York-based post-punk five-piece Les Savy Fav never quite managed to distil that magic into equally essential albums until 2007’s less abrasive, more melodic Let’s Stay Friends, before hitting a peak with 2010’s Root for Ruin. Their first new album in 14 years is very much of a piece with those two records, though it doesn’t consistently scale the same heights. The songs are still built around Seth Jabour and Andrew Reuland’s crystalline, Keith Levene-esque guitars, but there’s a little more restraint at play.
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