"I could step outside and walk in any direction/Everything I choose erases ghosts of potential/But it makes some new ghosts that I can fill"
--The Faint's 'Forever Growing Centipedes,' from 2008's 'Fasciinatiion'

So, like, everything we do creates this dimension, but the other choices are, like, parallel dimensions with their own reality? Bro, if I hadn't already seen 'Donnie Darko' my mind would be, like, totally blown.

Artist: The Faint
Songs: 'The Geeks Were Right'
Album: 'Fasciinatiion' [iTunes]
Sounds Like:The Klaxons, Shout Out Out Out Out

Download: 'The Geeks Were Right' (MP3)

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Four years after ruling clubs with their single, 'Desperate Guys' -- singer Todd Fink's ode to his lady love Orenda -- electronic rockers the Faint have prepped an August 5 return with 'Fasciinatiion,' and their first track is already pulling punches.

"Tabloid magazines are made in hell" are Fink's opening lyrics of the fiery cut, which chastises American society's obsession with celebrity culture, though it was inspired abroad.

"He went to Europe for a while -- went to Berlin and it was kind of around the heyday of that scene," Faint synthesizer wizard Jacob Thiele tells Spinner from his home in Omaha, where the five-piece is based. "[There] were dance parties in Berlin -- all-night-and-on-to-the-next-day kind of thing. When he came back from that trip he had a real lust for electronic dance music. The things that he learned over there played into how we worked on the production of this album."

The Faint wrote, recorded, produced and will release the new album on their own (on new imprint blank.wav), with the inspiration behind their independent attitude coming from bands of their youth.

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• The Faint will release a new album, titled 'Fasciinatiion,' on August 5. The Omaha-based new wave revivalists will also embark on a month-long trek in support of the disc, beginning July 27 in Des Moines, Iowa.

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