FINALLY we have a date for the excruciatingly long-awaited new Faint album.
I got an email from the website today announcing that the big date for Fasciinatiion is the 5th of August, woohoo!
Also, surprisingly, the band have split from Saddle Creek records and are releasing the album on their own label, Blank Wav. According to Pitchfork, the guys wrote, recorded, produced, art directed and released entirely on their own. Impressive!
The album has been long in the making - their last album Wet From Birth was released in 2004 and apparently they started working on Fasciinatiion in 2006! Extreme perfectionism is the issue here. Let's hope it's worth the wait. These guys can do no wrong in my eyes.
Pitchfork also posted the tracklist, which I hadn't seen:
01 Get Seduced 02 The Geeks Were Right 03 Machine in the Ghost 04 Fulcrum and Lever 05 Psycho 06 Mirror Error 07 I Treat You Wrong 08 Forever Growing Centipedes 09 Fish in a Womb 10 A Battle Hymn for Children
I can't wait to hear Forever Growing Centipedes...
Oh and they've announced a tour of the U.S. around the same time. Very jealous.
With Conor Oberst's new solo album released just the day before this I'm going to be in musical heaven!
My Trusted MOGs
Nice, I'm quite excited to hear this. Wonder why the break from Saddle Creek, though. Is there dissention in the ranks in Omaha?
My Trusted MOGs
I heard a rumour a while back that they had been dropped by Saddle Creek but I highly doubt that's the case. I'm sure it was an amicable split, fueled by... well I can't really imagine what their motive was.
My Trusted MOGs
yeah their parties in chi-town are rancid awesome. won't miss this release!