Fasciinatiion - The Faint
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 12 Ratings

  • Summary: The first album released on their new label Blank.wav was written and produced by the band.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 20
  2. Negative: 2 out of 20
  1. All told, The Faint, once again, have written a succesful album.
  2. Overall, the album--self-produced, four years in the making and the band’s first for its own label--isn’t as catchy as “Geeks,” but works reasonably well.
  3. The Faint are sounding way out of their depth on the Important Concepts front, while seeming perfectly at home on material about relationship-muck.
  4. The lyrics are nonsense about grotesque surgeries and a futuristic interface of man and machine; they’re sung with a weariness that suggests that even the singer is fatigued with this kind of thing.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Michelle
    10
    How could anyone not give THE FAINT a 10!?!? no matter what music they make its a perfect TEN! Seriously anything less would be lie. Listening to the album and seeing them live you would understand. Expand
  2. JohnB.
    10
    Very entertaining and danceable... Definitely a great album worth buying.
  3. Dan
    8
    There are a few songs where the lyrics/singing aren't quite up to par, but this is still a great album. Maybe not as good as "Danse Macabre" or "Wet From Birth", but really close. A few tracks really stand out - like "Machine In The Ghost", which is one of their best. Expand
  4. dreeves
    4
    Lots of hat, not so very much cattle. Behind the synths and the radiohead trappings, there's just not that much musicality or conceptual interest. Expand

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