Be warned; seek too much more and you'll end up slipping through the cracks into some kind of revolution, representative of something you’ve inherited. But what’ve we got nowadays? Recent times have seen the birth of Nickelback, The Darkness, Staind and Puddle of Mudd. If you discount the likes of Trail of Dead, At the Drive-in and Sigur Ros, the alternative-alternative has lost its innovative way for the past decade. Nothing’s really been happening. Yet it’s all nearly happening and all it’ll take is a spark for it all to make sense and morph…
The Faint have been away for quite a while since ‘Danse Macabre’ and their frankly, not so great live show which accompanied it. Since then The Strokes have become all famous and stuff, and The Rapture have sold British-baggy back to us whilst the sensible folks at the back have been left asking: has it come to this? But it’s ok, they’ve been working in the lab with Dre and Outkast, bouyed by 9am caffeine shots, taking in some crescendo classical highlights for luncheon, rocking out to anything from Prince to Pitchshifter thru the afternoon and danced to some Warp-flavoured IDM all evening… and that’s about the jiist of this record, it’s all over the place, yet perfectly fresh and maligned.
It opens like MC5 trying to kill funk-ridden bigbeat with their laptops, moves through Marilyn Manson getting his ass remixed by Fat Boy Slim and rolls onto Aphex rocking it with Hot Hot Heat. And all these musical ideals back the lyrical tension and fear, as a translation and dichotomy of all relationships; from international terror-politik to the girl who wants to sleep alone, again, fall apart.
So, if reclaiming the streets has taught us every public space is a marketing arena, The Faint leave nothing but questions and black holes all over the global dancefloor. Go, bust a groove on a pavement near you.
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seeing them tonight, cannot wait.
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and there is always innovation, depends which way you're looking... you quote 4 bands from the past 5 years ("Nickleback, The Darkness, Staind and Puddle of Mudd") as evidence against this and then mention 3 bands ("Trail of Dead, At the Drive-in and Sigur Ros") as evidence for, surely cancelling each other out. Though as intense as they are I'm not sure Trail Of Dead count as innovators when they're so indebted to Sonic Youth. but that's another argument. there is always good music, there is always bad music, the stuff we focus on depends on media and boardroom agendas. i just don't see that you have much of a point going on there.
still, am looking forward to this record.
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oh just fuck off.
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At least he's trying very hard, and making the folks back on the farm very proud. What are you doing?
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I tried to review it last night, but the words failed me.
Tomorrow, I will try again.
It makes me want to stamp on kittens and breath fire on grannies.
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am i right in assuming you've never run a website for years whilst crippled with debt and the prospect of never making money?
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Has anyone heard this album other than Sean? I like the way he writes, it's like making what you want with a box of Lego rather than what's in the picture on the front. But with words.
Still, I would like to know if this is better or worse than 'Danse Macabre'. Despite its place in the hearts of all the trendier than thous in clubs across London, it was a really good (surprisingly good) album.
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but not as good as danse macabre. but who knows! it might grow on me.
and the reviews not that bad!