From: mishaksky@mediaone.net
Subject: [NC] The Faint
Date: 6/30/2001 10:42:51 AM
To: Seance, seance@lists.no-fi.com


I saw an amazing band last night, something I really didn't expect to like.
It's a really heavy new wave-ish synth-rock band from Omaha, Nebraska, of
all places, called The Faint. They played a club here with the Autumns, a
local, atmospheric, shoegazey band I had primarily gone to see for the first
time, but the Faint were actually the headliners and the place was packed
because the most adventurous radio station in LA has been playing and
promoting them. They sounded like a cross between early New Order, Wall of
Voodoo, Gary Numan and a hint of OMD, but with a primal, heavy, deeply
sexual groove. They have a new album coming out in August (so why they're
touring now? I dunno).

- M.