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The Faint
By All Music Guide
Omaha, NEs the Faint have gone through countless changes in their relatively short career, but with each shift, both personnel-wise and stylistically, they have made a distinct new impression and turned more and more heads. Originally called Norman Bailer and featuring current members Clark and Todd Baechle, as well as bassist Joel Peterson, the bands early years were a mix of lo-fi pop and tongue-in-cheek easy listening with a touch of punk rock ideals borrowed from their early skateboarding days. Along with a prepubescent Bright Eyes and a recently formed Cursive, the band was one of the seeds that spawned the explosive Omaha scene as well as a flagship act for the highly regarded Saddle Creek Records. A very limited cassette release and a few tracks on split 7s and samplers were the bands only output, but the spark was there, and after adding Matt Bowen to the mix, the Faint proper first came into being around 1998. Media, the groups first full-length was still a far cry from their later sounds, but the record was a fitting introduction to the band that featured a bevy of conflicting sounds from ew wave-inspired pop to Lullaby for the Working Class style acoustic dirges. It wasnt the perfect record, but it was an inspired start that gave the band a good idea of what they were, and more importantly were not, striving for. In the wake of Media, the band set out to add something special to their live show, and in the course of the year, Bowen left the band and Jacob Thiele joined up to add the all-too-important keyboard sounds into the mix. Early 1999 saw the band re-enter the studio with a new agenda, focusing on danceable beats, catchy keyboards, and an 80s- influenced sound that both revered and reinvented the past. The result was Blank Wave Arcade (Saddle Creek), a pulsating record about sexuality, transportation, and mass consumption that instantly attracted hordes of new fans who were blown away by the groups distinctive new sound. The new material, along with a seizure-inducing D.I.Y. live light show and incorrigible on-stage energy created a major buzz, and soon the Faint were revered as the second coming of ew wave genius. A series of remixes on both a limited-edition LP and a tour to support a CD from Insound furthered the hype, and by the time the Faint entered the studio yet again in early 2001 the buzz had grown to a resounding roar. In August of 2001, the group released their third LP, Danse Macabre (Saddle Creek), a somewhat darker exploration of the styles hinted at on Blank Wave Arcade. They also added a guitarist by the name of Dapose, whose death metal past worked perfectly with the gloomy, but still oddly upbeat, sentiments of the new record. The disc was released to instant acclaim, and almost immediately became one of the labels best-selling titles. The Faint followed it up with even more touring and also found the time to release the Mote/Dust 12 (GSL) in October of 2001, featuring two more remixes, a Sonic Youth cover and a new track featuring Bright Eyes songsmith Conor Oberst. The band were all quiet on the recording front until March of 2003 when they released an album of remixes from Danse Macabre called strangely enough Danse Macabre Remixes. The disc featured remixes by artists like Paul Oakenfold, Photek and Medicine. They followed this up with Wet from Birth, which was released in fall 2004.
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FasciinatiionSource: Amazon
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The Faint are set to release their first album in four years ''Fasciinatiion'' through their own, newly-formed label, blank.wav. ''Fasciinatiion'', Th...
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2003 album and third so far from Nebraska's electo-rockers. Highly recommended, NME gives the album 8 out of 10. City Slang.
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The follow-up to 2001's "Danse Macabre" is the band's most feverish and intense work to date.
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Imagine the Blank-wave Arcade--the color of night-time neon. Its' interior, an unlikely one night stand of high-tech and punk rock ethics. Lonely an...
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The 1998 debut recording from Omaha, NE's the Faint is a far cry from the danceable, beat-heavy records the group went on to produce, but it is none...
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Nebraska's The Faint is unquestionably one of America's most exciting bands and Astralwerks is proud to release a remixed version of its critically ...
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The Faint releasein 2008 their first album in four years "Fasciinatiion" through their own, newly-formed label, blank.wav. Fasciinatiion is The Faint...
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2003 album and third so far from Nebraska's electo-rockers. Highly recommended, NME gives the album 8 out of 10. City Slang.
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