Summary from 8 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated FACS's catalog across 5 albums from 8 opinions, with an overall average of 7.5/10. The top-rated FACS album is Present Tense (2021) with a 8.0/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Still Life In Decay and Wish Defense. The discography on Wavelength spans 2019 to 2025.
Still Life In Decay
“There’s a satisfaction listening to FACS – a Sunday roast, comfort food kind of ballast that fills and fulfils in all the ways you want. And sure, it’s been written before, but they’re a great example of what being the sum of parts can really mean with guitarist Brian Case, bassist Alianna Kalaba and drummer Noah Leger individually adding purpose, power and intent to the undulating, gloomy unison.”
Present Tense
“There’s an alternate universe in which Chicago industrialists FACS can fill arenas. Yes, their music is deep, dense and awkward, but their experimentalism is worn lightly, even when their sonics are heavily laden with noise and dissonance. Much of it is no more abrasive than, say, Radiohead’s more inquisitive moments, and a good deal less po-faced. Its seriousness is genuine, but undergirded by a ”
Lifelike
“FACS' Lifelike is terrifying and thrilling in equal measure”
Void Moments
“On the third album from the Chicago post-rock trio – formed from the ashes of Disappears in 2017 – singer Brian Case is almost disappearing into their hypnotic wall of industrial sound. Minimalism has always been central to the FACS project, but here Case is almost actively removing his voice from the equation – there are snatches of cut-up vocals in the early part of tracks, and then nothing for ”
Lifelike
“Bless bands with short albums. FACS’ second record is by no means a smash and grab job, but they get in and get out with maximum impact. Using the post-punk sound of their debut album, ‘Negative Houses’, as a springboard, the Chicago-based trio strike a more experimental tone on album two, pulling shoegaze and art rock into the realm of the industrial. The result is foreboding – a disorienting mix”
Lifelike
“On their second release, the Disappears alums turn mercurial, whipping their habitual post-rock into more impressionistic, unpredictable forms.”
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