Download and News: Faunts New Album Feel.Love.Thinking.Of.

Faunts’ latest articulation, the full-length Feel.Love.Thinking.Of. (out February 17th, 2009 on Friendly Fire Recordings) is the culmination of a year of touring, recording, and meticulous exploration of this transcendent imagination. With its effervescent guitars, mathematic loops and synthesizers, surging drums, and seemingly nomadic bass lines, Feel.Love.Thinking.Of. is a fluid expression of Faunts’ painstaking attention to instrumentation and arrangement which allows the buoyantly defiant mood of the record to transverse any one song in particular.

Check out their MP3 for their track “Feel.Love.Thinking.Of.” and more about their upcoming album below…

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This is a band of perfectionists – every movement agonized over, every melody deconstructed and explored – whose labors have resulted in an expansive, layered, textured, and sublime collaboration. Feel.Love.Thinking.Of.  perfectly encompasses the band’s ambitious, imaginative devotion to sculpting not only a musical moment, but an entire atmosphere which accompanies that moment.

Now with the addition of Scott Gallant a third Batke brother, Rob, Faunts have given us Feel.Love.Thinking.Of., an album that is both more ambitious and sprawling in its conception and tighter and more focused in its execution than anything the band has done before. A more vocal, song-oriented album than its predecessors, Feel.Love.Thinking.Of. contains some truly sublime moments: the electronic pulse of the eponymous title track, the bending synths on “It Hurts Me all the Time” that almost evoke the singing saw, the krautrock-y slow burn of “Alarmed/Lights”, the emotive refrain of album closer “Explain”. With Feel.Love.Thinking.Of., Faunts have outgrown any old comparisons and developed into their own entity, and the results couldn’t be better.

Faunts
Faunts
Feel.Love.Thinking.Of.
(Friendly Fire)
Street date: Feb. 17, 2009

1. Feel.Love.Thinking.Of.
2. Input
3. It Hurts Me all the Time
4. Out on a Limb
5. Lights are Always On
6. Das Malefitz
7. I Think I’ll Start a Fire
8. Alarmed/Lights
9. So Far Away
10. Explain