The Faint

Add Date: March 19

Artist: The Faint

Album: Egowerk

Label: Saddle Creek

Genre: Electronic

Comments: Keeping up with a theme from this week's adds, The Faint's new album Egowerk calls to mind the synth-pop of the 70s and 80s. Heavily influenced by bands like New Order and Kraftwerk (the homage in the album's title gives this one away), the band create a retro-futuristic sound fit to play alongside any post-modern technological hellscape you find yourself navigating through. The thumping synth bass, the vocoders, the stingingly sharp icy synth leads, all of these things bring us back to the depths of the 1980s and the robo-technological future they had in mind. Check it out next time you're hunting down rogue replicants.

Recommended Tracks: 9, 5

DNP: 2