Faraquet.... RIYL?

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I just listened to The View From This Tower for the first time all the way through; Any Faraquet fans here? Who else does this kind of intense, mathy emo(90s sense)/postpunk, particularly with vocals, somewhat melodic ones at that? Braid would be on the more melodic end of this continuum, and on the more harsh end... ?

I especially enjoyed the more developed songs like Cut Not Self and Conceptual Separation of Self. It's not the most obvious connection, but the bare, clean production and tight instrumental interplay reminded me a little of Double Nickels on the Dime.

― Yoshinori M. Sasao (yoshinorimike), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 04:54 (seventeen years ago) link

...I was just going to search cached ILM for Faraquet (just got the album a week ago). What I'm immediately reminded of: Thingy, Drive Like Jehu. They sound like something between those two bands. Unwound - Repetition could also fit 2/3rds of the way along the harsher side of that pair. For less obvious recent choices, don't know.

― meep (xox), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw them open for Fugazi in 2000, and was knocked back a little by how good they were. But then they recorded an album and, um... became totally "meh."

― Johnny Fever (johnnyfever), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 05:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh right, this is a RIYL thread...

I don't think Very Secretary was ever as uptempo as Faraquet, but they did a good job of mixing the melody and the math pretty well.

― Johnny Fever (johnnyfever), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 05:18 (seventeen years ago) link

The obvious RIYL would be Medications, I guess (does that count?). There is definitely a Faraquet thread on Realilx, because I remember someone referencing the split they did with Akarso, who might be a good RIYL.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Tiki Theater Xymposium), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 09:30 (seventeen years ago) link

The album is meh. You need to get the Faraquet/Akarso split and the one seven inch. Srsly.

― Shadowcat (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah Faraquet might be my favorite latter day Dischord band, definitely in the same boat where I love them but no very little presumably similiar mathy melodic bands. I think Medications are still together, their first EP was better (and more Faraquet-ish) than the full-length, but I look forward to hearing what they'll do next. how was the Mary Timony album that Devin Ocampo produced and played on?

― Al (Alex In Baltimore), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Hella sort of carries the instrumental ideas behind Faraquet to further extremes. Obv. they're not melodic in the same way.

― Shadowcat (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

smart went crazy

― just m@tt he1g3s0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

q and not u (maybe?)

― just m@tt he1g3s0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

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