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Les Savy Fav is Tim Harrington (vocals), Seth Jabour (guitar), Syd Butler (bass) and Harrison Haynes (drums). It has been nearly 6 years since Les Savy Fav has released a full album of new material. Finding their place in music has resulted in the new full length entitled Let's Stay Friends.

Since forming in 1995, Les Savy Fav has grown into a band considered among the godfathers of the independent rock music scene, releasing three albums (3/5 in 1997, The Cat &The Cobra in 1999, Go Forth in 2001) and a singles compilation (Inches in 2004). Let's Stay Friends is a record about Les Savy Fav's unwillingness to give up. It's a resolution to defy the forces which wear away at our innocence and enthusiasm. As musicians, the record declares their ultimate goals of being together, writing, and performing on their own terms. From it's first track- "Pots & Pans" to "Patty Lee" to its last "The Lowest Bitter," Let's Stay Friends consistently explores the challenges of keeping sight of ones true nature of a rapidly shifting world.

The idea for this new record was to take time with it to make it perfect. The whole band (particularly guitarist Seth's Jabour's) musicianship and style developed and matured in their hiatus from the studio and everyone wanted to make sure they took time to leverage the ideas and enthusiasm that were pent up. Early in the writing process the band asked guitarist Andrew Reuland, a friend since before there was a band, to collaborate on many of the songs on the record. In addition to Andrew, a number of notable musicians were brought in- Eleanor Friedberger from the Fiery Furnaces sings a duet with Tim, Nicholas Thorburn from Islands/Unicorns does some back up, ALL the members of Enon make appearances, SNL's Fred Armisen plays drums on "Pots & Pans" and "Patty Lee," Emily Haines from Metric plays piano and Joe Plummer from Modest Mouse/The Black Heart Procession adds drumming that helped to expand the overall sound.

The release of Let's Stay Friends will also bring some touring this fall including the band playing several record release shows in their home area of New York City around the Fall release date.

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• Tim Harrington - Vocals

• Andrew Reuland - Guitar

• Syd Butler - Bass

• Seth Jabour - Guitar

• Harrison Haynes - Drums

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  Let's Stay Friends

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  Inches

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  Go Forth

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  3/5

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  Cat & the Cobra