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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Chicago band FACS sees the return of original member Jonathan Van Herik and features songs recorded by Steve Albini before he passed away with mixing by John Congleton.
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- Record Label: Trouble in Mind
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Feb 19, 2025It’s an album that holds power found rarely these days – up there with Joy Division’s Closer in terms of transgressing the boundary between the macabre and ethereal, uniting music to dance to with spiritual experience, marking the twilight divide of utopia and dystopia.
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Feb 28, 2025Seven genuinely engaging, intensely dynamic compositions that rank amongst the best of their entire catalog. Fans of tense, eerie, unsettling rock music who haven’t yet given the album a spin are doing themselves an immense disservice.
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Feb 13, 2025With Wish Defense, FACS have made a record that is as much a piece of Steve Albini’s legacy as it is to their own magnum opus. It is challenging, confrontational, and relentless – but for all its darkness, something striking emerges. Not beauty in a conventional sense, but something raw, vivid, and impossible to ignore.
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Feb 13, 2025As with FACS' previous incarnations, how their songs come together -- or fall apart -- is still enthralling, and Wish Defense only enhances their reputation for crafting some of the most exciting experimental rock of their time.
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Mar 18, 2025‘Wish Defense’ is probably FACS’ most fun album.
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UncutFeb 13, 2025This is the kind of record that Albini's notoriously no-frills production style served best: a brooding and intense post-punk, equal parts visceral and cerebral. [Mar 2025, p.32]
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May 8, 2025Wish Defense is stark and elegant—a post-punk record that stares straight into the black reflection and sculpts it into something solid.