The FaintBest The Faint Albums Ranked

Danse Macabre

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7.8

“*The agony, desire, that none rise aboveThe sweet aching torture from one that you loveFor some shall believe, while many find hardThere is nothing quite like, the song of Macabre!* Okay, so I ripped that off some goth chick's "webcave," but short of a tragico-absurdist interpretive dance, it's the best way to sum up the feelings I have for The Faint's new album, *Danse Macabre*. Indie rock (with”

Egowerk

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6.5

“More than two decades in, the Omaha electro-rock band finds new reasons to stay angry and keep dancing.”

Doom Abuse

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6.1

“The Faint released their debut album Sine Sierra nearly twenty years ago, and if that makes you feel old, imagine how they must’ve felt when they went on hiatus following 2008’s Fasciination. Their first album since reuniting, Doom Abuse, isn’t so much an argument for the Faint’s continued relevancy as it is for the potency of their real-time nostalgia.”

Fasciinatiion

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6.0

“More than a decade into their career, Omaha's the Faint-- now self-producing and releasing their music on their own label-- have seen their infatuation with 1980s synth pop become an indie cliché; their first album in four years balances songs about geopolitics and technology with musings on the politics of romance.”

Wet From Birth

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5.5

“Fourth proper album from these Omaha-based new-wavers-gone-goth-rockers further slants toward the darker Depeche Mode territory explored on 2001's Danse Macabre.”

Danse Macabre Remixes

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3.2

“So The Faint have finally made it into the 90s. Let's toast; Smart Drinks are on me. Coming off like The Cure's own transition into the last decade, *Mixed Up*, tracks from The Faint's wildly popular 2001 record *Danse Macabre* get molded here into to the throbbing glowstick beats and gigantic bronze cojones of famous producers such as Junior Sanchez, Photek, and Paul "Assembly Line" Oakenfold. F”