By rights, Les Savy Fav should've been huge. Emerging on the Providence, Rhode Island scene at a time when exciting bands like Lightning Bolt were signalling a new, abrasive but artful, noisy but nuanced direction for indie rock music, over the course of a decade the band's sound developed from raucous art-punk to thoughtful and deliberate alt-rock.
By the time the indie boom of the mid 2000s hit, they were making music that saw them stand toe to toe with the artists who broke through and hit the majors – but that was never the life they'd intended for themselves. Talking with Louder, singer Tim Harrington expresses that all the music he's ever loved has been "underrated", and his belief is that it's all the better for it.
