Your Personal Soundtrack: Les Savy Fav – The Sweat Descends (Live)
It’s an odd formula, but somehow it works. Three talented musicians meet each other at the Rhode Island School of Design and they decide to recruit the weirdest looking, craziest guy, who would become one of the most famed singers in Indie Rock. Tim Harrington, whose stage antics have become a thing of legend, is taking up the post as the Iggy Pop of our generation.
Here, on “The Sweat Descends” he’s almost the Buddha of post-punk angst. The crowd just eats up his crazy vocal delivery and ridiculous appearance. Though, his banter after the song displays the greatest characteristic of Harrington’s act – he has an abundant sense of humor and an unpretentiousness that’s refreshing in a genre that normally takes itself way too seriously.
