Look at those guys from Herohill. Sitting all the way over there in their walled Halifax estate, dusting off another breakfast lobster, sipping their Alexander Keith’s, staring at their posters of Ellen Page while catching up on the Mooseheads. They think they’re so special, flaunting the cleanliness their Halifax Bay and being all sister city’d with a Japanese city. Meh! And if that wasn’t bad enough, look at them being all big and important because they wrote about Faunts before I did: “Ooh, we’re Herohill, and we wrote about Faunts before A Limerick Ox did because we’re so cool and in the know and have perfect skin.” DOUBLE-MEH!

Well guess what, I’m still going to write about Faunts and do you know why? Because they’re a great band, that’s why. All you need to do is listen to outstanding M4 (Part II) to figure that one out. It’s a vast, moody piece built on the curst shimmy of new wave guitar, swimming avidly amidst a expansive briny of billowing synth movements, rolling purposefully in skillful dramatic motives. Not a single moment is precipitated in this eight minute epic, swelling from its initial tingling gloaming into an echoing, flighty theme of swooshing darkness and gentle tenterhooks. Never completely comforting, yet not at all distant and detached.

So maybe they did get to write about Faunts before I did, but I got to use “tenterhooks” before they did. SCORE

MP3: Faunts - M4 (Part II)

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