- Artist: The Faint
- Title: Fasciinatiion
- Label: Blank.wav
- Genre: Indie
- Bitrate: 197kbit av.
- Time: 00:35:00
- Size: 51.99 mb
- Rip Date: 2008-08-05
- Str Date: 2008-08-05
- 1. Get Seduced 4:22
- 2. The Geeks Were Right 2:56
- 3. Machine In The Ghost 3:19
- 4. Fulcrum And Lever 3:22
- 5. Psycho 2:51
- 6. Mirror Error 3:43
- 7. I Treat You Wrong 3:20
- 8. Forever Growing Centipedes 3:53
- 9. Fish In A Womb 3:16
- 10. A Battle Hymn For Children 3:58
- Release Notes:
- When the Faint emerged from out of nowhere and released the
- twenty-five minute long Blank Wave Arcade, an EP that had one
- of the most efficient length-to-influence ratios in music
- history, it seemed like they were a band that had
- single-handedly ended the moratorium on synthesizers in rock
- music.
- Though the reaction to their records since has never quite
- again climbed the triple-tiered keyboard stand of
- transcendence from which they threw down that first left-field
- release (like a Moses crossed with Gary Numan), they have
- consistently honed their production and stripped their sound
- down to the essentials. The Faint has posted a new song on
- their site from their upcoming release, Fasciination. Ă´The
- Geeks Were Rightö is lamentably slower and more focused on the
- lyrics than most of the standout tracks on 2004Æs Wet From
- Birth, but despite that, this muffled energy still shows off
- their status as auteurs in a realm of synth production that
- owes a whole library of sounds to the ingenuity of this band.
- Their trademark fear of the future is more schtick than
- paranoia-driven at this point, but the chorusÆ intro line, ôI
- saw the future,ö can refer just as easily in the (deservedly)
- self-aggrandizing hip-hop mode to the bandÆs
- self-acknowledgment as the guys who ushered in of an era of
- synth-based indie rock.
