Friendly Fire
2009
Feel. Love. Thinking. Of.
About This Album
Like their peers and fellow Canadians Stars, Faunts examine relationships and romance with their hearts open for the world to examine. But where Stars rarely stray far from tweeville and an early-2000s indie aesthetic, Faunts straddle many different musical genres, sometimes with great success and sometimes somewhat awkwardly. New wave of the 1980s, the pop electronica of the Postal Service or any Ben Gibbard project for that matter, the dreamy dance vibes of Junior Boys, the dynamics explorations of bands like Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky, and the film and TV scores of Jan Hammer all crop up as influences on Feel. Love. Thinking. Of. Thankfully, not every song features all of these influences, though there's a certain hit-or-miss factor at play when the brilliant, emotional pop of a song like "Input" resides on the same album as the cheesy 1980s-style car wreck of "Das Malefitz," which squanders a decent impersonation of Michael Brook's infinite guitar to become an unintentionally goofy TV score knockoff. "I Think I'll Start a Fire" is another example of a song that might ape the 1980s perfectly but lacks a purpose on an album that's not meant as a joke.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7)

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