Capsule: 1999-2016 rounds up 19 choice cuts from the Omaha, Nebraska dance-rock veterans, including a pair of brand-new tracks recorded in 2016. The sonic antithesis of fellow Saddle Creek alums
Bright Eyes --
Conor Oberst was a member when the band was still operating under the Norman Bailer moniker --
the Faint didn't really hit their stride until the release of 1999's
Blank-Wave Arcade. Those early cuts -- "Call Call" and "Worked Up So Sexual" -- helped usher in a new wave of electro-punk, and subsequent albums like
Danse Macabre,
Wet from Birth,
Fasciinatiion, and
Doom Abuse delivered the goods via sweaty, floor-filling bangers like "Agenda Suicide," "Southern Belles in London Sing," and "Glass Danse." The retrospective also features the band's thumping 2016 single "Young & Realistic," along with the aforementioned two new tracks, "Skylab 1979" and "ESP." [
Capsule: 1999-2016 was also released on LP.] ~ James Christopher Monger