"I don't start fights I make explosions"

Fucking yes the new Faint album Fasciinatiion is out August Fifth on the bands own Blank.wav imprint - and jesusfuck is it another stunner. The Faint are already cemented as one of my favourite live acts - as catching them live last year in D.C. proved that they can tour on an album that was a President’s term old and still remain solid [although showcasing one new track “Forever Growing Centipedes”].

Todd Fink and his band of merrily dark gentlemen and brothers maintain a stranglehold on the electronique/synth_saw genre - that’s just fact. Immediate keepers of the ten total on Fasciinatiion are closer “Battle Hymn For Children” that follows in the bands album closers of the past [“Birth” from Wet From Birth, “Ballad of a Paralysed Citizen” from Danse Macabre] with a sense of pleasant moroseness setting it apart from the rest of the LP. A tale of teachers, Heaven and space exploration is delivered atop a myriad of breakbeats, pops and choralesque synths. A keeper - no doubt. The one track I don’t see myself tossing into the seas anytime soon is “Fulcrum & Lever” - the tale of a young boy of seventy pounds strapping planks of wood to his back in an attempt to craft a flying machine. Safe to say the dabble in homemade flying [whilst using the neighborhoods largest kid for take off power] doesn’t go so well, as the narrator ends up eating PB&J’s in a hopsital bed. The bonus is that the child picks up some new mental power that rounds out the tracks chorus of “strange phenomena”. Sung over a beat that is likely to make Lil’ Dwayne Carter blush - I can erect’ly predict current fans will be fucking ecstatic and those not in the know will be blatantly informed.

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