Egowerk, by The Faint

Egowerk

by The Faint

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©ough©ool Insane masterpiece. Every track is absolute gold. Dance punk at its finest Favorite track: Chameleon Nights.

Dan Gomez I love the era appropriate lyrics in this song. Love it!

k*ss*n So fired up for this next FAINT album! Their pulsing songs & astringent synth sounds have been hugely influential on Symbion Project. Chameleon Nights will haunt my dreams until this stellar album burns waveforms into our earholes.

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1.	Child Asleep 04:39	lyrics	buy track
If I was wise I would see I’m a child still asleep Listen to the guess you made There are no separate things With all the world still asleep I would like not to be Let belief fade away It wasn’t real anyway Earth - magnet - pole True distance home
2.	Chameleon Nights 03:32	lyrics	buy track
Chameleon-like you see the slithering ones If you don't blend in you’re in danger Which face saves face it's a slippery slope and you can’t fight back on your own Hot tongue cold blood our defense is up Does everyone owe you something? Lose lose, win win, we're up against the wall It’s that high school, small town talk I can’t face the horror Can’t take the chameleon nights Blindfold the voyeur I can’t take the chameleon nights Behind the screen you’re on brave attack. You sacrifice to be righteous Unfriend unplug there’s a world outside There’s a place we see eye to eye Everybody’s talking but we don't know shit You fight, I fight, it's an ego trip It's a video game and you're an avatar What you fake becomes what you are I can’t face the horror I can’t take the chameleon nights Blindfold the voyeur I can’t take the chameleon nights Can’t face the horror Can’t take the chameleon nights You fight pain with torture. I can’t take the chameleon nights
3.	Life’s a Joke 04:52	lyrics	buy track
You want more love You want more life You want validation You want to make things right You want success You want to be a big star You want to stack that money You want some of that power You want to be brave But you want to live long You want to be guiltless When it’s all your fault You want to be awakened But you want more sleep You want more passion But you need relief With nothing to prove No one to please Nothing to hide No one to be You'll say what you will Life’s a joke It’s a game of luck Then time's up You want to be real But you want to be raw You want to feel needed flaws and all You want to know yourself You want to clear head But you want to get fucked up And you want respect You want to fit in But you want to stand out You want to trust your body But you’re best without You want to find your purpose And know you’re right You want to be a good story It could end tonight With nothing to prove No one to please Nothing to hide No one to be You say what you do Life’s a joke It’s a game of luck Then time's up
4.	Alien Angel 03:38	lyrics	buy track
In a world policed by children In a game of fame and power We forget it’s all a program We’re in too far to tell So convinced we’re making progress, it’s a lie We divide ourselves to collide Alien angel We knock heads about the answers We protest and guess and judge We need an off-world enemy concept Someone far away to loathe Can you convince us that this spaceship should survive? We divide ourselves to collide Alien Angel I feel infinite but how high am I? Guilty yeah, but of what type of crime? Loan the tools maybe we'll wake up Tune the fork to our frustration
5.	Egowerk 04:52	lyrics	buy track
In the eye of eyes The mind of minds We paint the truth and then defend it Meet yourself Find your hell But keep believing you’ve got the answers Climb inside the mirror Backward the words “Darkness is a perspective” and we’ve got our heads in dirt I’ve been watching the ego work A toxic tongue A song unsung We know the signs We know possession Feel the rage manipulate us Just beyond the looking glass Down the tunnel - go ask Alice Tender nerves spin the earth We’ve got our heads in dirt I’ve been watching the ego work Climb inside the mirror Backward the words “Darkness is a perspective” and we’ve got our heads in dirt I’ve been watching the ego work
6.	Own My Eyes 03:48	lyrics	buy track
Telephone meltdown Check my likes Stare deep in the black mirror Is this real life? Cast out for an answer Serve bait till you bite My mind like a magnet Online Distraction Distractions own my eyes So deep in a mindset So down for a fight So brave on the laptop So bored with life Speak truth to the the church choir Go take sides My mind's like a magnet Online
7.	Source of the Sun 04:20	lyrics	buy track
I can’t find the line I can’t find the body’s end Am i the heat floating off this bag of skin? Am I the brain inside or what gets made with it? Are we all one? Or are we separate? When we disagree I’m your argument When you’ve got problems I’m your circumstance I’m your conscience I’m your touch I’m your culture I’m your drug I’m the snowstorm the fire I’m the flood I shine the sun I shine the sun Nothing outside the infinite One I can’t find the line I can’t find the body’s end Is it me in the maze? or am I the maze I’m in? When you do evil When you judge from above When you want revenge I’m your nature Your love
8.	Another World 03:34	lyrics	buy track
Plastered to the background Shadows on your eyes Every time you almost see it Motion makes you blind Camera tracking backwards to focus on your face Full exposure Perfect terror Memory erased If I had your contact If I knew your name Could I find you? Maybe know you? Help you play the game? Let me be the answer Day turns into night Information profligating Terminate the light Another world Caught between Can you feel? What it means Staring through your window Looking at the sky Did you notice something funny? Something not quite right? First the stars were dimmer Then the moon turned green Are you here or are you somewhere You cannot relate Another world Caught between Can you feel? What it means Another world Caught between What it means What it means Caught between Another world Am I here? Am I safe?
9.	Quench the Flame 04:46	lyrics	buy track
Yes it’s awful, true Do we mean the things we do? It’s all repeating And we forget We go and burn it down again Are we children of men? What are we willing to let happen? The past was brutal But who’s to blame? We go and burn it down again Quench the flame Are we honest enough? What’s the point of breaking up? Just to restart the game The game that no one admits we play Quench the flame I teach you how to treat me I teach you how much to care I teach you how to treat me I push you away
10.	Young & Realistic 04:56	lyrics	buy track
Your lows were low - I was familiar Bulgarian choirs in your head The clouds were black but not forever You'll wake up better like I said Remember how it was when we first met It was impossible to know what you were thinking. Every other girl - afraid of the world Second guessing every movement that they're making. You’re not the type to go looking for flaws You don’t have to skewer somebody’s fashion Competitive cats can fight cats While you’re in a deep conversation If this is love It’s enough. Turns out the voice making words in your skull isn’t judging anything but danger I passed the test even though I suppose black metal was our first conversation Glowing and calm but not safe at all As you’re throwing a phone out the window Hold my calls I’m in no mood to talk Do you know if this room’s under Orenda? Young and realistic till you gave that up You know tons who recommend it but they don’t get out. When life is in the can, it’s work and it’s hellish Queens of the class get free rides to heaven But not in this life. If this is love It’s enough.
11.	Automaton 03:33	lyrics
I might bet I’ve got control of my body I might guess I choose the way that I move I could take the credit but if I’m honest my body seems to choose Like a dress knows what to do when the wind blows Campfire flames don’t have a need to repeat You and I do what we do when the time comes We're patterns in the breeze I’m automatic Mechanistic My nature can’t admit it Is it me pushing the pump for blood flow? Is it me growing the hair that I got? Sure, my lungs do work while I’m sleeping But do I control my thoughts? I’m automatic Mechanistic My nature can’t admit it But focusing on my problems hardly seems to solve them I’m tired of hunting drama I’m learning to live by karma

about

The Faint's long-awaited new album, Egowerk, is set to release on March 15, 2019. Made up of vocalist Todd Fink, drummer Clark Baechle, keyboardist Graham Ulicny, and guitarist and bassist Michael “Dapose” Dappen, the group that ignited an electro-pop-punk movement is back with an 11-track deep-dive into themes on modern society, the internet, and ego - specifically social media and its dark effects.

Opener “Child Asleep” echoes well-loved Faint singles from the Danse Macabre days, with rapidfire techno beats that sear so hot, your forehead will break into a sweat regardless of proximity to a dance floor. And though the synths should sound familiar to any Faint follower, the song’s monotone message is at once classic and current: “If I was wise, I would see I’m a child still asleep.”

Elaborating further, Todd says, “It would be amazing if I could wake up from the world that I think I'm awake in already. If there’s a better way of understanding life, I'd love to be privy to it. You see the wisdom of all Gurus in the East, and you know they're not bothered by this or that. They've attained something, and the rest of us are just kind of banging into stuff, trying to figure out what to do with our lives.”

It’s been four years since The Faint dropped a proper studio album, and more than two decades since they first tore onto the Midwest scene, alongside area staples Cursive and Bright Eyes, with anxious electro-pop-punk anthems that meshed doomsday themes with thudding dance-floor hooks. The group began to construct Egowerk shortly after releasing their 2016 career-spanning record, CAPSULE:1999-2016, with Baechle making frequent trips back to Omaha from his new home in Philadelphia to mix the record. The band made a unanimous decision to self-produce the entire record, making it unique and far more involved than any of their past work.

Despite The Faint’s nihilistic musings on Egowerk, Fink and Baechle remain optimistic that things can improve if society is willing to absorb dueling perspectives. “The more you learn about any issue, any issue at all, the more you understand that it's more complicated than you think,” Fink says. “I'd like to see people less convinced that they're right about everything all the time. I guess I think we'll figure it out as time goes on.”

credits

released March 15, 2019

2019 Saddle Creek

Produced, recorded, and mixed by Clark Baechle at Enamel in Omaha, NE.
Mastered by Ted Jensen and Justin Shturtz at Sterling Sound.

All songs written by The Faint.
Songs of the Unseen Hand (SESAC), ULICNYPUBPARTY (ASCAP)
Tracks 2, 5, 9 co-written with Orenda Fink and Morgan Meyn Nagler.
90% Angel Songs (ASCAP), Goldmeyn Music (BMI) administered by Rough Trade Songs (BMI)

Artwork by Todd Fink.

The Faint are Todd Fink, Dapose, Clark Baechle and Graham Ulicny.

Management by Joel Mark at Deckstar.
Booking by Dave Tamaroff at WME.

www.thefaint.com

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Dudes from Omaha that grew up on punk, noise, death metal, new wave, techno, & skateboarding.

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