What you say
No-one has reviewed Fasciinatiion by The Faint yet.
What the label says:
TRACKLISTING: (1) GET SEDUCED (2) THE GEEKS WERE RIGHT (3) MACHINE IN
THE GHOST (4) FULCRUM AND LEVER (5) PSYCHO (6) MIRROR ERROR (7) I TREAT
YOU WRONG (8) FOREVER GROWING CENTIPEDES (9) FISH IN A WOMB (10) A
BATTLE HYMN FOR CHILDREN
OVERVIEW:
Fasciinatiion, The
Faint's fifth album, is the first in the band's ten-year history to be
written, recorded, produced, and released entirely on their own. Prior
to the album's release, the Omaha quintet will be hitting the road,
touring the US and Europe.
Fasciinatiion is a culmination of
nearly four years of writing and recording, a process that has always
been a wholly democractic one for The Faint. After the release of the
band's lauded fourth record, Wet From Birth, The Faint – Todd Fink
(vocals), Joel Petersen (bass/guitar), Clark Baechle (drums), Jacob
Thiele (synthesizers), Dapose (guitar/bass) – spent the next year on
the road across the globe. They returned home to Omaha in 2005, where
they began work on their newest venture – Enamel – a recording-and-art
studio to take the place of their former workspace, The Orifice. Once
built, they began the long process of writing new material, and, once
enough songs had been amassed, eventually made the decision to produce
the record themselves. The result is the best album in the band's
career, a record that is the purest culmination of The Faint's
brilliant musical instincts, ideas and aesthetic, with each member
contributing equally to its creation.
Fasciinatiion is an album
that draws on many defining facets of The Faint's sound, while
remaining completely different from anything else they've put out. A
record whose themes include predictions and the future, tabloid
culture, the allure of what may never be, childhood lost and more,
Fasciinatiion sounds as if it's been beamed in from a satellite whose
sole purpose is observing, and making sense of, the details of every
day existence. In certain ways, the album is the most mechanical and
precise of the band's work: Todd's voice sounds less human than ever
before; the bass lines are more mangled, keyboards spiral and squeal
out of control; electronic pings and stabs invade the melodies; the
lyrical anxiety and disdain of previous albums pervades almost every
song on Fasciinatiion. Opener "Get Seduced" is The Faint at their
best, the song’s critique of celebrity culture matched with one of the
finest choruses they've ever written. First single, "The Geeks Were
Right" draws on the tenets of futurist literature and sliding,
siren-call guitars. "Fulcrum and Lever" marries ambient noise with
space references, alienation and a stuttering, flexing beat, while
"Mirror Error" explores identity and consciousness within its perfect,
propulsive electro-pop, its choruses swirling high and taking Todd's
voice up with it. Closer "A Battle Hymn for Children" flinches with
nervous rhythms against resentment of the future to be inherited and
keyboards that sound like flailing voices.
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