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17 For ’17: An Exhaustive List From Rock And Roll Fables Of What You Should’ve Already Bought This Year

27 December 2017 By jesse Leave a Comment

It’s that time of the year again! A time of reflection! A time of typing! A time of regretting the decision to pick the amount of best albums based on what year it is.

Review links are attached to the band name where applicable. Thanks in advance for reading! [Read more…]

Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables, Year End Tagged With: Bait, bright netflix, CLOSENESS, Deb Demure, Drab Majesty, Ghastly Sound, Junius, Liam Gallagher, Mark Lanegan, Mastodon, My Ticket Home, Netflix, Pig, Polkadot Cadaver, Prong, Queens Of The Stone Age, Replicant, Rock And Roll Fables, Summoner, The Ruins Of Beverast, Todd Fink, Will Smith

CLOSENESS Brings Love And Warmth To The Synthetic Sounds Of Personality Therapy

24 January 2017 By jesse Leave a Comment

Who doesn’t love love?

CLOSENESS is the pairing of husband and wife indie darlings Todd and Orenda Fink better known from their day jobs fronting The Faint and Azure Ray respectively. On their debut EP they do not disappoint, meshing their separate styles seamlessly to birth a totally unique album that will satiate all the Fink fans. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Azure Ray, CLOSENESS, Graveface Records, Orenda Fink, Personality Therapy, Rock And Roll Fables, The Faint, Todd Fink

The Faint Take A Trip Down Memory Lane With A Detour Into The Future On CAPSULE:1999-2016

13 September 2016 By jesse Leave a Comment

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Only The Faint could compel a review of a ‘best of’ compilation out of us. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: CAPSULE:1999-2016, Clark Baechle, Dapose, Jacob Thiele, Michael Dappen, Rock And Roll Fables, Saddle Creek, Saddle Creek Records, The Faint, Todd Fink

Doom Abuse: The ultimate The Faint record?

28 March 2014 By jesse 1 Comment

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Doom Abuse, The Faint’s sixth album, took way too long to come out. Considering that The Faint ceased to be somewhere in the six years since their last album (2008’s Fasciination) was released it’s a miracle that fans are even holding a copy of Doom Abuse in their hands. But speaking of the album you should almost be holding in your hands by now (Vinyl copies are out now, available on CD and digitally April 8th), it is by and large well worth the wait. The sound of a band reinvigorated  and taking stock of what made them great in the first place but branching out into unknown territory at the same time, Doom Abuse grabs hold of everything that made The Faint unique in the past and fuses it with something even more futuristic and awesome. Worth the wait? Eff yes!

Mildly teased at the end of 2012 with the 10th anniversary Danse Macabre tour that heralded the “Evil Voices” 12″ (The sinister “Unseen Hand” has been slightly retooled to fit in here while “Evil Voices” remains mostly intact), Doom Abuse is finally here and it is easily the best, most fun, and most cohesive album The Faint has concocted thus far.

This is an album that was made to be danced to from the opening dischordant squeal of “Help In The Head” through to the synth fade out on “Damage Control”. The Faint live is this infectious moving beast that compels the audience to follow suit and dance like maniacs. Doom Abuse is a great soundtrack to that through and through. There’s the punk rock rabble rousings from Fasciination (“Salt My Doom”, “Scapegoat”), Danse Macabre throwbacks (“Lessons From The Darkness”) and some things that are completely new (“Mental Radio” is a Gary Numan meets The Cure amalgamation while “Dress Code” goes for Freedom Of Choice-era Devo).

In other words, Doom Abuse has *ahem* something for everybody.

At the end of the day, this was the album The Faint needed to make after their hiatus. Todd Fink is at the top of his game on every track (Especially on the quintessential “Loss Of Head”), Dapose is a sonic maelstrom throughout as well while Jacob Thiele creates these epic synthetic soundscapes (“Animal Needs”) and Clark Baechle just keeps the beat alive incessantly.

Doom Abuse is out now as a Deluxe Double Vinyl Edition and out on April 8th in CD and digital formats.

 

 

Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music Tagged With: Clark Baechle, Dapose, Doom Abuse, doom abuse album review, Jacob Thiele, Rock And Roll Fables, The Faint, the faint new album 2014, Todd Fink

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