The follow-up to 2001's "Danse Macabre" is the band's most feverish and intense work to date. Album Description
 |  | Not as catchy as "Danse Macabre", but still some standout tracks |  |
Personally, I prefer The Faint's more danceable retro new wave sounds, and here, you get 5 such tracks, but they are definitely goodies: Desperate Guys, How Could I Forget, I Disappear, Paranoiattack, and Symptom Finger. The remaining tracks are suprisingly subdued instead of alt rockers you might expect, but most of them are worthy of multiple listens. Hot album.
August 9, 2007This is a great danc-y album in keeping with your typical "Faint" sound. There are some great songs on here (Southern Belles, I'm looking at you) but there are overall more low points on this disc than there were on Danse Macabre. Certainly, this record is dancy and hot, but overall I'd rather listen to Danse all the way through than this one.
May 27, 2007 | | Wet from loving this album | |
The Faint has become my band of choice for those days that I just feel like dancing in public to. Starting with my first listen to Danse Macabre, I realized I could not ignore them. I've finally realized I needed to own WFB even though I had previously listened to it before, and I am relishing in its gloomy synth candy noise. Beginning with the eerie violin in Desperate guys, continuing to Paranoiaattack, and winding down at Symptom Finger you just are atatcked with these excellently crafted trance-infused indie rock melodies. How great can it be? Try it, as well as Danse Macabre, you wont be dissapointed.
February 3, 2007I absolutely loved this album by the Faint. The music is sooo dancy and punchy. It's what typifies the Faint. I just wanted to comment, however, that the album cover and the name of the song "Wet from Birth" - uh, can we say . . . Nirvana?!! It reminds me of the In Utero album with its abundance of feti sprinkled throughout. I wouldn't say the Faint sounds like them, but I guess a fetus on an album cover will remind me of Nirvana for a while.
December 2, 2006All I have to say is the lyrics on this album, coupled with the synthesizers and morose, industrial sound, are pretty awesome. Awesome in the way that I wouldn't listen to this album in the dark, much like their last one "Dance Macabre". "Birth" is definetley my favorite song, mostly because it goes through the entire process of conception, gestation, and birth using scary metaphors and scientific terminology, making what many call the "miracle of life" sound like a weird paracite-horror film. anyone who can do that in a song I could also dance to is worthwhile.
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