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It's Bolzhi. I'm Jesse Thorne.

My previous guest this week, Serge Tankin, was a brilliant standout in the new metal scene in the early 2000s.

My next guests were also brilliant standouts, also during that same era,

but they stood out in a very different scene.

The flood descends, my psyche bends, even, I never be the same again.

Laysavifab came out of New York City. It was a world of bands that were mostly either

dancing and fun or artsy and sincere. But Les

Sabi Fav were the rare act that was all those things, often at the same time.

The song we just played is a great example, The Sweat descends. It has that fun early-2000s dance punk beat, the classic angular guitar critics used to love to write about.

A driving baseline from Sid Butler, and then Tim Harrington's voice, part singing, part talking, part screaming. The sweat descends.

This sand.

This sled descends.

One. One cock-shore fox in a house in a house of hands.

My mouth will water with a sweaty sun.

It sounds fun, right?

But listen to the lyrics.

You hear something darker at play.

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