Les Savy Fav - Root for Ruin

I saw Les Savy Fav play at a rather small club one time, purely to see if the rumors I had heard about the live show being nuts were as true as I'd hoped. They were. So much so that I was actually a little worried that frontman Tim Harrington might interact with me; not something I was hoping for. But, I never investigated the actual recorded music until this record was recommended to me by multiple people as a perfect transition from some of my favorite angular 90's indie rock bands. The energy, the guitar tone and the slightly snide vocals are spot on. After embracing this, I can properly understand the fever of both the performers and the audience from that prior show experience. For anyone missing energetic, driving rock music, this seems like the right antidote. [www.lessavyfav.com]