Lifelike, by FACS

Lifelike

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1.	Another Country 04:27	buy track
2.	In Time 05:14	buy track
3.	XUXA 04:13	buy track
4.	Anti-Body 03:13	buy track
5.	Loom State 03:50	buy track
6.	Total History 08:21	buy track

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Chicago trio FACS was founded in 2017 by former Disappears members Brian Case & Noah Leger, along with their bandmate Jonathan van Herik. After van Herik amicably parted ways with the group just before their debut album "Negative Houses"'s release, Case & Leger recruited longtime friend Alianna Kalaba (Cat Power, We Ragazzi) to play bass & FACS began methodically destroying live venues across the world. "Lifelike" is their sophomore release; six tracks clocking in at half an hour, carrying forward the musical trail blazed by the debut towards a new frontier.

"Lifelike" occupies a space in between the band's debut & Case & Leger's work with Disappears, applying minimalism & space in compositions that reside somewhere near the realms of post-punk, art-rock, shoegaze, industrial music & post-rock. "Lifelike" however adds a more melodic sensibility, without sacrificing any of the debut's punishing sonic muscle, with a discernible audial force perceivable thru the speakers (credit due to engineer Jeremy Lemos' recording via Electrical Audio as well as John Congleton's mixing and Jason Ward's mastering for accurately capturing the punishing heft of the band's live sound)

Kicking off with the lumbering "Another Country", whose opening drone lulls the listener into a trance before Leger's drums crack the earth below. The band veers close to This Heat territory here, with Kalaba's minimal bass throb & Case's nearly unrecognizable guitar loops & multi-tracked voice punctuating the spaces between. Album standout "In Time" careens with purpose with cascading sheets of guitar noise over the rhythm sections ever-advancing march, while "XUXA"s melodic washes of monochrome eases the tension ever so slightly. Side two awaits, with the anxiety-ridden opener "Anti-Body" & the claustrophobic "Loom State"s clanging aura of menace. "Lifelike" closes with "Total History", whose syrupy shuffle belies the blunt-force trauma of its closing minutes, with the sheer weight of sonic force seeming to blow out the speakers it emanates from. A phoenix returning to the ashes from whence it came.

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released March 29, 2019

FACS:
Noah Leger: drums
Alianna Kalaba: bass
Brian Case: guitar, vocals

Engineered by Jeremy Lemos at Electrical Audio / Sept 2018
Mixed by John Congleton at Elmwood West / Oct 2018
Mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Service / Nov. 2018

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FACS use minimalism and space to create abstract, modern art rock.

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