Go Forth

Go Forth Artist: Les Savy Fav
Label: French Kiss
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 718751859029
EAN: 0718751859029
ASIN: B00005OMBI


Release Date: 2001-10-23

Go Forth


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Tracks:

  1. Tragic Monsters
  2. Reprobate's Resume
  3. Crawling Can Be Beautiful
  4. Disco Drive
  5. The Slip
  6. Daily Dares
  7. One To Three
  8. Pills
  9. Adopduction
  10. No Sleeves
  11. Bloom On Demand
  12. Bonus Track

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Amazon.com

<I>Go Forth</I> is the third full-length album from Brooklyn's new-wave bruisers Les Savy Fav. One of the most remarkable acts to ever emerge from America's postpunk melting pot (a gang of sharp-dressed art students and a frenzied, hairy front man who dresses as a pirate), Les Savy Fav bring the art of confrontation back to rock & roll, but barb their brash physical assault with a musical ingenuity and fierce intelligence. While the <I>Rome (Written Upside Down)</I> EP was the first record to properly capture the Les Savy live sound--a lithe, danceable new-wave rush peppered with electronics--<I>Go Forth</I> adds beats and synthesizer to the tight, jarring musical clatter. Front man Tim Harrington's continues to write enlightening and elliptical lyrics, a frantic mix of cryptic intellectual allusions and cut-and-paste wordplay ("I crave to catch an edge / Break bones and cartilage / Send back the architects of Carthage," he hollers on "One to Three"). With so much of the alternative sector lost to irony, decadence, and self-absorption, <I>Go Forth</I> sounds as pure and true as a missionary's teachings. Become a convert. <I>--Louis Pattison</I>

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Gang of Four ?.......2005-08-02

I might just be old but I was around in the early 80's and a band called "Gang of Four" pretty much sounded just like this.

I don't know what earlier Les Savy sounds like but this CD is an exersize in Gang of Four riffs... From start to finish.

That said, this is a solid CD worth owning.

5 out of 5 stars Underappreciated.......2004-09-01

Like a lot of people do with the latest album a band releases, they critisize it by comparing it to earlier releases, or favorite releases from other bands. Fugazi had a lot of trouble with that when they released "The Argument." Everyone out there is yearning for another "Waiting Room." We already have one, and no matter how cool that bass was, we don't need another one. It's time for a new style. The situation with Go Forth is the same. It sounds completely different from 3/5 and The Cat and the Cobra, and everyone wants a repeat of the same style. They don't get one. Instead, they get well recorded songs that aren't dumped on with those killer static effects like 3/5 was. These songs are solid gold. If you don't think it can step to the early releases, you need to hear this one some more.

4 out of 5 stars Post-Punk/Art-Rockers Unite!.......2004-05-21

Les Savy Fav. When the name is heard, you think of a soft band playing very easy listening, melodic music. Oh how far off that assumption is.

While a couple songs on Go Forth are mellow, most of them are Post-Punk staples, much like their predecesors, Mission of Burma and Wire. Les Savy Fav is a band that is much more easily accessible than the two aforementioned, though. They don't really use noise and unconventional sounds quite as much as the genre normally does. I dig MoB just as much as the next guy, but really, would you use them as an introduction to the genre? (I would use Fugazi.)

Les Savy Fav have created quite a good album. It's not a masterpiece like Pink Flag or Vs., but it is really good. The bass work is prominent, the drumming makes you subconciously tap your foot, and the guitar work ties all of it together. The vocals are also deserving of praise. If you're a newbie to post-punk or alternative music, Les Savy Fav would be a good band to look into after you grow accustumed to the music. If you've been digging this type of music for a long time, you won't find anything you haven't already heard, but that doesn't undermine the album's goodness.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent.......2004-05-05

Maybe this is not their best work. Who cares! I like to think of this album as the perfect realization of 'pop-punk' music. Catchy songs that are fun to sing along to. Of course, with Les Savy Fav there is more to it than just that, but in no way do they subscribe to the holier-than-thou art rocker stereotype. Seeing Tim Harrington, the lead singer, strip to his briefs and give himself a wedgie on stage will make that clear to anyone.

4 out of 5 stars

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  1. Just a Poke/Darkness to Light ~ Sweet Smoke
  2. Cats Without Claws ~ Donna Summer
  3. Swim ~ July for Kings
  4. Mind, Body & Soul ~ Joss Stone
  5. Burned Alive By Time ~ Evergreen Terrace
  6. Wishing Like a Mountain and Thinking Like the Sea ~ Poi Dog Pondering
  7. Queen of the Night ~ Maggie Bell
  8. Everything ~ The Bangles
  9. Island Bound ~ Bertie Higgins
  10. Mike Harrison ~ Mike Harrison

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Centrifugal Funk ~ MVP

Neighbors ~ Big Neighborhood

Phonograph Entertains: Collection of Vintage Popular Recordings 1903-1924 ~ Various Artists

You Rascal You ~ Fats Waller

Jazz Festival V.12: Crossover ~ Various Artists

Safari ~ 3 Voices & a Bass

Osaka Rainy Blues ~ Kanjani Eight

How Me Commin' ~ R.B.L. Posse

Nuts ~ Mill Nuts

Aoi Tsuki ~ Wyolica