I'm not sure what went wrong with this album. It should have been pretty good. When The Faint released The Geeks Were Right [1] a few weeks ago everything seemed to be in order. It sounded like The Faint were picking up pretty much where Wet From Birth left off. But I guess not releasing an album in four years really messes with your sense of what sounds good and what doesn't. Apparently the single was a fluke, or a lie - or both... because it doesn't represent the rest of the album. I've managed to listen to this album five times through. Like any album, some tracks are better than others, but this is by far the worst Faint album yet.Fasciination starts off with the mediocre Get Seduced, which sounds like it has one too many electro beeps crammed into it. It's almost like they were contractually obligated to have Michael Winslow [2] produce this album. Here is a video of what the making of Fasciination was like:
Other than The Geeks Were Right, the best track on this album has to be Machine in the Ghost. It doesn't rank very high for me in the overall catalog of Faint songs, but the bar is pretty low on this album. Fulcrum and Lever, the fourth track on the album completes the transition from the good tracks to the lame. I appreciate The Faint lumping the decent songs together at the beginning of the album, it makes it easy for the listener, you can really just listen up to the fifth track and then simply turn the CD off because there isn't anything worth listening to after Fulcrum and Lever. Fasciination is by far the biggest disappointment of the year as far as albums go. I'm glad I didn't already buy tickets to see them this fall.
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