High Expectations/Low Results

Artist: Faunts
Label: Friendly Fire
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 656605899121
EAN: 0656605899121
ASIN: B000BB03JG

Release Date: 2005-10-18

High Expectations/Low Results

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Tracks:

High Expectations
Instantly Loved
Memories Of Places We've Never Been
Place I've Found
Parler De La Pluie Et Du Beau Temps
Will You Tell Me Then
Twenty-Three
Gone With The Day
Low Results

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Customer Reviews:

Imagine a late night slowcore band viewed through fogged up glass..........2006-03-19

There's just something about music that is slow and mysterious, foggy and indistinct, fuzzy and dreamlike that just gets me everytime. Any sort of music sounds better to me, once it's buried in record crackle, or wrapped in thick swirls of fuzzy distortion, or smeared with a gauzy ambient haze. But the music of Faunts is so perfectly suited to being goergeously obfuscated that it's hard to imagine this music any other way.

High Expectations doesn't sound like some crystal clear recording that was later treated with all sort of foggy filters, no this record sounds like it was created like this, birthed from some mysterious ether, a ghostlike sonic wraith, dreamy droney slow motion rock drifting skyward like some disembodied slowcore spectre. Blissy and incandescent, with a candelit churchlike warmth, a glow suffusing the air all around. Like a druggier more fuzzy Low. Each track a lugubrious creep, romantic and melancholy, hushed vocals, brushed drums and swoonsome lapsteel. Occasionally the songs build to a ferocious climax, the sound like a wall of blown out shoegaze guitars, with big distorted drums, beneath squiggly white hot traces of incendiary psychedelic skree, before drifting back to earth, a slow simmer, fuzzy melodies drifitng over and around ethereal vocals and muted mood rock minimalism.

Imagine a late night slowcore band, viewed through fogged up glass, thick with running rainwater, everything wavery and blisssfully unfocused, every once in a while the headlights of a passing car flare brilliantly, spinning wild prisms of color and white hot sparkles before fading back to a muted dusky drift.
High Expectations has lots of varied elements, even if they only surface briefly here and there, some jazzy shuffle, some jangly indie rock, some Flaming Lips-ish big beat drug pop, some epic Godspeed-ish, even a bit of near-new wave, but those disparate elements all manage to get woven deftly and beautifully into Faunts' delicate and drowsy sonic world.

i heart the faunts.......2005-12-29

a beautiful introspective album that winds perfectly through a rainy sunday or a mellow night. the songs are long and develop slowly but are not hesitant. it is in constant rotation at my place. check it out if you like sigur ros, etc.

Spacey.......2005-12-14

Wicked downtempo shoegazy indie tunes for fans of Slowdive and Sigur Ros. Perfect soundtrack for a rainy day.

zigavoo.......2005-11-16

transcends the listener to another dimension of sound. The vision that this band has is unbelievably unique. JUST SHUT YOUR EYES AND LET IT TAKE YOU AWAY!!!

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