Les Savy Fav return with first new track in 14 years, ‘Legendary Tippers’
Les Savy Fav are again with their first new track for 14 years, ‘Legendary Tippers’.
The indie rockers’ quirky new post-punk-inspired observe is the primary new music to emerge since their 2010 album ‘Root For Wreck’.
“The guitars have this offhanded virtuoso factor going,” stated vocalist Tim Harrington. “Seth had stacked all of those semi-improvised scratch tracks right into a demo. Once I bought them, I used to be instantly drawn to the manic pile-up of utilizing all of them, , with zero edits. It’s like if the solo from ‘Taxman’ wolfed down a bottle of Adderall.”
Try ‘Legendary Tippers’ and its meta music video under:
Per a press launch, Les Savy Fav spent their time away “constructing and rising their households, taking and dropping jobs, and dwelling via the varied ecstatic and hideous facets of rising older.”
Harrington wrote and illustrated youngsters’s books, constructed an attic studio, handled psychological well being points and later grew to become a inventive director. Bassist Syd Butler continued operating his document label, Frenchkiss, and performed alongside guitarist Seth Jabour as a part of the home band for Late Night time With Seth Meyers.
“The band was by no means a job, so we are able to’t get fired and don’t should stop,” Harrington continued. “We had the time to determine carry the individuals we’ve turn into and the individuals we’re as artists collectively authentically. There’s a chaotic, untethered ecstasy on the middle of the band’s universe. Squaring that with the need to create stability and the necessity to endure some grind isn’t simple.”
Les Savy Fav teased their comeback all through the final yr with a sequence of one-off exhibits, together with a string of European competition appearances and an intimate present on the newly opened Knitting Manufacturing facility NYC alongside Marnie Stern.
The band shall be taking part in two UK and Eire exhibits later this month and also will seem at Primavera Sound in Might, with different UK exhibits deliberate for round that point.
You’ll be able to see their tour dates under and purchase your tickets here.
FEBRUARY
23 – London, Electrical Ballroom
24 – Bristol, Easy Issues Pageant
MAY
24 – Dublin, Whelans
25 – Leeds, Brudenell Social Membership
28 – Barcelona, Primavera Sound