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A unique combination of masculinity and creativity, Let's Stay Friends is proof that few bands rock quite like this.
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Entertainment WeeklyThe group is malevolent and charming at once, still a beguiling combo. [21 Sep 2007, p.82]
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Let's Stay Friends is LSF's comeback--and frontman Tim Harrington and crew have picked up precisely where they left off.
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This album was well worth the wait and should win over some new fans and please the old ones too. Best of show.
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Let's Stay Friends arrives as a startling cannon-shot message of brain-thawing intent.
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Alternative PressThey've retained some of the tighty wound post-punk angularity they've always favored and even bust a bit of old school punk, but the real advances are melodic. [Nov 2007, p.160]
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MagnetThis heady mix of stratospheric rockers and inventive, smart and slyly revolutionary lyrics yields Les Savy Fav's best album yet. [Fall 2007, p.101]
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From the propulsive 'What Would Wolves Do?' to the dub-styled 'Brace Yourself,' the album seems like something to play while driving across the desert at sunset, especially with all the wolf cries in the background from Islands’ Nicolas Thorburn.
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It's not Les Savy Fav's most immediate record, nor is it their best.
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The silent partners in LSF, Butler, Haynes, and guitarist Seth Jabour, all turn in their best work, making Friends the band’s most propulsive and moving offering yet.
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Most notably is how these songs manage to seem loose, fun and deliberate all at once.
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Let’s Stay Friends is the most ambitious abuse of genre the band’s yet laid, like somehow when the indie revolution got gerrymandered Les Savy Fav came out on top.
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An ambitious, filler-free, modernist-sounding beast which laughs in the face of underachievement.
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It’s a welcome return, to say the least.
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MojoLet's Stay Friends is a triumphant fusion of graft and glimmer. [Nov 2007, p.96]
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Let's Stay Friends is the first album of new songs in six years from indie-rock madcaps Les Savy Fav, yet it sounds like a band that's just hitting a peak.
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Q MagazineIt marks a huge leap forward, with much of their previous discordant awkwardness replaced with a more focused approach. [Nov 2007, p.141]
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Everything clicks on Let's Stay Friends, from blasts of Rocket from the Crypt bombastic rock on The Equestrian to Fugazi-sharp guitars backing Tim Harrington's feverish, controlled vocals on Patty Lee.
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Perfect it may not be, but as perfect as possible it might, and Let's Stay Friends certainly has more than enough fervor to make it one of the more refreshing punk purist releases since Fugazi laid down a baker's dozen of songs in the last century.
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Let’s Stay Friends is a fitting fourth album for Les Savy Fav. Assured and confident in an established style, the band also finds new ways to express its visions of frustration and celebration.
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It’s been said that Let’s Stay Friends is more pop than anything Les Savy Fav have put out before, but it’s still tight-fist tough.
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SpinLet's Stay Friends almost captures the band's sweaty, live weirdness on record, and it leaves enough breathing room for their wicked smarts to shimmy up through the hip-shaking indie punk. [Oct 2007, p.106]
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At best, the record is filled with remnants of bottled anger and expelled demons. At worst, it’s filled with the kind of angsty cries typically read in pouty 14-year-olds’ LiveJournals.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 30 out of 36
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Mixed: 2 out of 36
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Negative: 4 out of 36
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JeffH.Nov 25, 2007I can't believe that an album that actually rocks made to the top ten list. Must have been an oversight.
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BenJ.Nov 17, 2007
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SeanP.Nov 11, 2007