3/5

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3/5
Studio album by Les Savy Fav
Released	July 1, 1997
Recorded	???
Genre	Art punk
Length	32:28
Label	Self-Starter Foundation
Producer(s)	James Murphy with Nicholas Vernhes
Professional reviews
All Music Guide (4/5) link Pitchfork Media (7.6/10.0) link
Les Savy Fav chronology
	3/5 (1997)	The Cat and the Cobra (1999)

3/5 is the first album by Les Savy Fav. It was released in 1997 by Self-Starter Foundation. The LP release came in a pack of shower caps and is fairly difficult to find, sometimes fetching high prices on eBay. Coincidentally, only three-fifths of the line-up on this album, the band's first, remain in the present day line-up, as drummer Patrick Mahoney was replaced by Harrison Haynes before the group's second album, The Cat and the Cobra, and guitarist Gibb Slife left before the recording of the Rome (written upside down) EP.

Having gone out of print, the album was re-issued in 2006 on the Frenchkiss label, minus the shower caps.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Intro" – 3:15
2. "New Teen Anthem" – 2:53
3. "Cut It Out" – 2:23
4. "Pluto" – 2:49
5. "Cassolette" – 2:52
6. "Scout's Honor" – 3:13
7. "Je T'Aime" – 4:57
8. "Raise Buildings" – 2:53
9. "Blackouts" – 3:16
10. "False Starts" – 4:15

[edit] Credits

• Tim Harrington (vocals)
• Gibb Slife (guitar)
• Patrick Mahoney (drums)
• Seth Thom Jabour (guitar)
• Syd Butler (bass guitar)