基本内容

中文名称：Inches

资源类型：MP3

发行时间：2004年4月20日

专辑歌手：Les Savy Fav

语言：英语

简介：

Artist: Les Savy Fav

Title: Inches

Release Year: 2004

Style: Genre/Indie, Genre/Punk

Runtime: 70:37

Label: Frenchkiss

这支乐队因其华丽的编曲被乐评人归为后朋阵营，但又由于他们没有一首歌的旋律是容易被人记住的，所以更多推荐也把他们划分到 艺术摇滚的范畴，这自然是一个戏谑的说法。最本质的问题是他们音乐紧张的节奏、耀武扬威的吉他、雄心勃勃的概念和同样锋利的歌词都极见分量。

推荐单曲：《Hold On to Your Genre》、《We'll Make a Lover of You》

It's no secret: Les Savy Fav like to shit up. Baldly transgress ing the most basic assumptions about rock singers, the band's frontman is a pudgy, bearded, wild-eyed freak whose unpredictable stage show tends to scare off men and women alike. Their studio output varies from barked, discordant indie anthems to synth-heavy art-punk. And their new singles record, Inches, reverses all the usual rules that compilations of its ilk abide by.

For most rock bands, a singles compilation is an afterthought-- an offhanded concession to fans who may have missed out on the limited pressings. For Les Savy Fav, a singles compilation was a forethought, conceived before the band had even recorded a song for it. Now, seven years after its conception, the career-spanning project finally comes to fruition, collecting the A- and B-sides of nine seven-inches, all originally released by different labels.

For those who've been keeping up with these singles, the excellence of Inches is a foregone conclusion. While many contemporary indie bands reserve their singles for the release of marginal or subpar material, Les Savy Fav's tend to offer songs that are not only better than the band's album cuts but, despite the disparate conditions of their production, more consistent as well. For a band so prone to brilliant and exhausting outbursts, it's not surprising that their defining album would come in this form.

And without a doubt, this is Les Savy Fav's defining album. The high points on Inches are not only the finest songs the group has ever recorded, but are also the most indicative of their strengths as a band. "Our Coastal Hymn", released in live form as a hidden track on The Cat and the Cobra, is possibly the catchiest song in their entire repertoire-- hook after blistering hook, all energized by the band's trademark frenetic grandiosity. Never overpowered by its angularity, "Our Coastal Hymn" is less an anthemic punk song than it is a pointy anthem, unconventionally catchy and tremendously forceful.