Faunts
Label: Friendly FireGenre: Electronic, Rock
On their second full-length, Alberta, Canada's Faunts reign in their epic song structuring, meandering less while managing to maintain their expansive sound. Their new album tends to use more electronics (a more dour Postal Service?) without sacrificing the ringing guitars. In "M4 (Part 1)" guitars loop repeatedly a la Michael Brook's infinite guitar and Faunts' ethereal tendencies in many of their songs remind me of similar moments in The Cure's Seventeen Seconds. Faunts get plenty of comparisons to The Cure, but unlike many of their contemporaries the similarities lie with the instrumentation rather than Smith's warbled vocals; however, bald-faced comparisons to any band do a disservice to potential fans, because Faunts transcend simple analogies to any band that's come before, and Feel.Love.Thinking.Of raises expectations for any band choosing to follow Faunts' lead.
From Feel.Love.Thinking.Of (2009):
It Hurts Me All the Time [MP3, 4.4MB, 192kbps]
Feel.Love.Thinking.Of [MP3, 4.3MB, 192kbps]
From Faunts Remixed (2008):
Memories of Places We've Never Been (T.H. White Remix) [MP3, 5.7MB, 192kbps]
M4 (Part II) (The Paronomasiac Remix) [MP3, 10.2MB, 192kbps]
From M4 Digital EP (2007):
M4 (Part 1) [MP3, 10.6MB, 160kbps]
From High Expectations/Low Results (2005):
Instantly Loved [MP3, 7.9MB, 192kbps]
Memories of Places We've Never Been [MP3, 5.7MB, 192kbps]
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