3/5

Infobox Album |
Name = 3/5
Type = Album
Artist = Les Savy Fav


Released = July 1 1997
Recorded = ???
Genre = Art punk
Length = 32:28
Label = Self-Starter Foundation
Producer = James Murphy with Nicholas Vernhes
Reviews =
* Allmusic rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:q96uak6kkm3x link]
* Pitchfork Media (7.6/10.0) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/37636/Les_Savy_Fav_3_5 link]
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type =


Lower caption =
Last album =
This album = "3/5"
(1997)
Next album = "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.

Track listing

#"Intro" – 3:15
#"New Teen Anthem" – 2:53
#"Cut It Out" – 2:23
#"Pluto" – 2:49
#"Cassolette" – 2:52
#"Scout's Honor" – 3:13
#"Je T'Aime" – 4:57
#"Raise Buildings" – 2:53
#"Blackouts" – 3:16
#"False Starts" – 4:15

Credits

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