Nearly six years after the release of strangely desiccated 2008 album Fasciinatiion and one lengthy stroll down wait-is-this-a-hiatus-or-a-break-up? lane, the Faint has reemerged from the shadows to deliver up Doom Abuse—a vital, manic comeback triumph shellacked in an exquisite devil-may-fucking-care electro-sheen. Guitarist Dapose will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all wee. Read our brand new Q&A with him.
Dapose: Beautiful, elegant, classy, manly. I really like his hopeful-yet-sad melodies. They are so lonely but comforting to me. His songs have this rising pitch at the ends of the phrases that go up, then down, then just kind of get blown away in the desert wind. So warm.
