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Let's Stay Friends

Universal acclaim
Based on 23 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 29 votes
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Album Info
Label: French Kiss
Release Date: 18 September 2007
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Rock, Indie
Summary
The New York City-based band's fourth studio album.
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Also On The Web: Criticulture Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Observer Music Monthly
A unique combination of masculinity and creativity, Let's Stay Friends is proof that few bands rock quite like this.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly
The group is malevolent and charming at once, still a beguiling combo. [21 Sep 2007, p.82]
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Let's Stay Friends is LSF's comeback--and frontman Tim Harrington and crew have picked up precisely where they left off.
Read Full Review >All Music Guide
This album was well worth the wait and should win over some new fans and please the old ones too. Best of show.
Read Full Review >New Musical Express
Let's Stay Friends arrives as a startling cannon-shot message of brain-thawing intent.
Read Full Review >Alternative Press
They'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]
Magnet
This heady mix of stratospheric rockers and inventive, smart and slyly revolutionary lyrics yields Les Savy Fav's best album yet. [Fall 2007, p.101]
Filter
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.
Read Full Review >Stylus Magazine
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.
Read Full Review >cokemachineglow
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.
Read Full Review >Prefix Magazine
Most notably is how these songs manage to seem loose, fun and deliberate all at once.
Read Full Review >BBC collective
An ambitious, filler-free, modernist-sounding beast which laughs in the face of underachievement.
Read Full Review >Mojo
Let's Stay Friends is a triumphant fusion of graft and glimmer. [Nov 2007, p.96]
Rolling Stone
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.
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
It marks a huge leap forward, with much of their previous discordant awkwardness replaced with a more focused approach. [Nov 2007, p.141]
NOW Magazine
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.
Read Full Review >Lost At Sea
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.
Read Full Review >PopMatters
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.
Read Full Review >Drowned In Sound
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.
Read Full Review >Spin
Let'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]
Tiny Mix Tapes
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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 8.1 (out of 10) based on 29 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Jeff H. gave it a10:
I can't believe that an album that actually rocks made to the top ten list. Must have been an oversight.
Ben J. gave it a7:
My only issue with this album is that the finer songs on it are absolutely blinding, but the not so great ones are pretty dull. I think it's therefore rather uneven. Perhaps better as an EP than a full album? Or am I just being too picky?
Sean P. gave it a10:
Wow, this album is short, but infectious. It takes a few listens to love all the way, but after a few listens I couldn't take it from my CD player.
Adam C. gave it a10:
Pounding passion. Contagious and catchy. Great lyrics. This is the most addictive album of the year. A must have.
kjgh gave it a1:
I just listened to a couple tracks. bag o' shit. very snoozy.
Ben M. gave it a10:
This album has 6 or 7 songs that completely bowl me over. "The Equestrian" is my favorite rock song in at least 3 years, and nearly every other track gets me insanely excited with right about 1 minute left before the end. LSF have a great way of lining up the elements throughout each song and really knocking it out of the park right at the end. Amazing album!
hakaima s. gave it a10:
at first i kinda hated this record, the production sucked (and still sucks), but now i'm just in love with each and every song.
