Saw Delight is a studio album by the German Krautrock band Can. It features two new band members who were ex-members of the band Traffic, Rosko Gee and Rebop Kwaku Baah, with Can's bassist Holger Czukay giving up the bass in favour of experimental effects.

On the eve of the recording sessions for Saw Delight, Can had a tumultuous creative atmosphere, marked by intensifying creative difference between Can members. They experienced escalating "tension between Can's free-form philosophy and the desire to sculpt accessible musical forms". The band members started drifting away from joined, lengthy recording sessions after the integration of sixteen-track recording in 1975. The new equipment allowed Can to record in isolation by providing them means for performing the audio tracks alone, separately from the core recording session, and overdubbing them in post-production. Lastly, the clarity of the sixteen-track recording "magnified" the musicians' flaws and "frequently criticised" these flaws, especially unhappy about the output of their bassist Holger Czukay.

Czukay had "taken up the bass in the group almost by default", and by early 1977, he drifted away from playing the bass due to the creative differences within the band. Additionally, Can's music increasingly took on more mainstream forms, and Czukay "had less of an outlet for his more experimental impulses". He stopped playing bass for Can, but continued working with the group, producing their records and modifying them with electronic effects. He later said that "they somehow wanted to achieve that Can became a good band of instrumentalists—that means heroes of their own instruments. I could not make it, actually."

When band was looking for a substitute bass player, Czukay introduced them to a former Traffic member, Rosko Gee. Czukay met him in 1975 during Can's performance on the episode of The Old Grey Whistle Test. At that time, Rosko was a part of Jim Capaldi's backing band, which performed his single "Love Hurts" on the same episode. Gee brought along his former bandmate, Reebop Kwaku Baah, who joined Can as the second percussionist.

Soon after the release of Can's previous record, Flow Motion, Michael Karoli set out on a trip to central and east Africa for a couple of weeks, traveling through the Congo, Zaïre, and Kenya". In 1997, Karoli told a journalist: "When you visit a nightclub in Africa where a good highlife band is playing, you feel like a carrot chucked into a boiling soup. You have to move… that influence was inevitable on Saw Delight". Rosko confirmed that "Michael's style of playing may have changed after his trip to Africa", and thought Michael became a better guitar player, comparing the aftermath of his trip to the revelation that hit George Harrison after his trip to India.

Saw Delight was mixed by Can at the Delta Acoustic Studio near Hamburg. The studio's sound engineer, Manfred Schunke, converted it into "Artificial Head Stereo, essaying a 3D effect that's 'hard to appreciate at four decades' distance". Michael Karoli described some of the passages on the album as "pure rhythm".

"Don't Say No" incorporates the melody from Can's earlier track "Moonshake".

The front cover "fuses an image of circular saw, long-player grooves, and mystical circle".