Well, it’s about time! The Faint announced that their 5th studio album will be released August 5th not on Saddle Creek, but on their own label Blank.wav. Pretty exciting. Likewise, Conor Oberst is releasing his next album on Merge records under his own name. Times they are a changin’.
Here’s what their press statement said:
“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 (or is it flailing voices that sound like keyboards? On Fasciinatiion, one can never tell).”
Album 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
Their upcoming tour schedule:
The Faint – 2008 Tour Dates
7/27 – Des Moines, IA @ Peoples Court
7/28 – Sioux Falls, SD @ Ramkota Annex
7/29 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
7/30 – Salt Lake City, UT @ In the Venue
7/31 – Boise, ID @ Big Easy Boise
8/1 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore
8/2 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox at the Market
8/3 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
8/4 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
8/5 – San Francisco, CA @ Grand Ballroom
8/7 – Los Angeles, CA @ Henry Fonda Theatre
8/8 – Los Angeles, CA @ Henry Fonda Theatre
8/9 – San Diego, CA @ Soma
8/11 – Austin, TX @ La Zona Rosa
8/12 – Dallas, TX @ Palladium
8/14 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
8/15 – Carrboro, NC @ Cats Cradle
8/16 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
8/17 – Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero
8/18 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5
8/20 – Worcester, MA @ Palladium
8/21 – Toronto, ON @ Opera House
8/22 – Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre
8/23 – Omaha, NE @ Soko Auditorium
Goose + Steve Aoki – Bring It On Ft. Todd Fink of the Faint
Nine Inch Nails – Meet Your Master (The Faint Remix)
The Faint – Worked Up So Sexual
This is a bit strange. I posted this Wesley cartoon a while back along with a mix and now it doesn’t exist anymore. I know there wasn’t any objectionable content and no one notified me regarding taking a track down… Hm, well anyway here’s a few more tracks that go along with the repost of the cartoon. It seems that Wesley is encountering some electrical problems… I wonder what the cause could be?
