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Let's Stay Friends
by Les Savy Fav
The New York City-based band's fourth studio album.
| LABEL: |
French Kiss |
| RELEASE DATE: |
18 September 2007 |
| DISCS: |
1 disc |
| GENRE(S): |
Rock, Indie |
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...
100
Observer Music Monthly
A unique combination of masculinity and creativity, Let's Stay Friends is proof that few bands rock quite like this.
91
Entertainment Weekly
The group is malevolent and charming at once, still a beguiling combo. [21 Sep 2007, p.82]
91
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.
90
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.
90
New Musical Express
Let's Stay Friends arrives as a startling cannon-shot message of brain-thawing intent.
90
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]
90
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]
90
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.
83
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.
83
Pitchfork
It's not Les Savy Fav's most immediate record, nor is it their best.
80
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.
80
Prefix Magazine
Most notably is how these songs manage to seem loose, fun and deliberate all at once.
80
BBC collective
An ambitious, filler-free, modernist-sounding beast which laughs in the face of underachievement.
80
Uncut
It’s a welcome return, to say the least.
80
Mojo
Let's Stay Friends is a triumphant fusion of graft and glimmer. [Nov 2007, p.96]
80
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.
80
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]
80
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.
75
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.
70
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.
70
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.
60
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]
60
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.
The average user rating for this album is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 28 User Votes
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