View basket “…The Answer to Both Your Questions” has been added to your basket. Still Life In Decay FACS SKU: 20.00 20.00 £20.00 £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Trouble In Mind Released Date: 7th April 2023 Buying Format: 1LP 1LP Coloured Vinyl Buying Options Choose an option1LP1LP Coloured VinylClear Still Life In Decay quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Everything eventually turns to dust. Everyone knows this, but few want to acknowledge that our time on this mortal coil is fleeting, preferring to remain in stasis, in hopes that “the end” will pass them by. Chicago trio FACS (guitarist Brian Case, bassist Alianna Kalaba & drummer Noah Leger) have been perfecting their brand of intense, cathartic post-punk over the course of four ever-evolving albums, beginning with 2017’s “Negative Houses” thru 2021’s landmark “Present Tense”, which saw the trio dig deep into the gaping maw of a black hole & pulling back whatever debris they could grasp onto. Their newest “Still Life In Decay” comes as an addendum to the last album – a “post-event review” if you will. “Still Life In Decay” starts with a squall of white noise before collapsing into the band already locked into “Constellation”‘s lumbering groove, with Case’s guitar a ghostly presence, appearing & disappearing in washes of gauzy feedback throughout the track. FACS have never been more locked in as a unit, and “Still Life In Decay” is a decidedly more focused effort. The apocalyptic chaos that defined their previous album “Present Tense” is waved away in favor of an examination of events with cumbrous clarity. FACS are a heavy band, but they don’t necessarily FEEL like one (see side two’s “Still Life”, where Case’s fluttering, melodic guitar lines are buoyed by the insistent, underlying pulse of the bass & drums). As a rhythm section, Kalaba & Leger dance & twist around each other like a double helix, forming the DNA of what makes FACS special. Collectively they approach rhythm from outside the groove as opposed to inside it, creating a lattice where Case weaves guitar lines like creeping vines, which makes the moments on “Still Life In Decay” where the band DOES lock in even more powerful. When the guitar punctures the lock-step swing of “When You Say”, it hits like a hammer. Case utilizes his lyrics like a person suffering from anterograde amnesia; repeating phrases & holding onto old memories in a desperate attempt to avoid the slide into oblivion. Freeform poetic missives touching on themes of resignation, cynicism, class warfare, and a search for identity & meaning in a crumbling society; A primal desire to hold onto anything in a post-pandemic barrage of sensory overload. The album is a decidedly local affair; recorded once again at Chicago’s famed Electrical Audio by renowned engineer Sanford Parker & mixed at his Hypercube Studio in Chicago’s Ravenswood neighborhood & mastered by Matthew Barnhart at Chicago Mastering Service. Limited RED VINYL is for Indies only while supplies last. RIYL: Unwound, MBV, The Jesus Lizard, SUUNS, METZ, The Dead C, Echo & The Bunnymen, Liars, This Heat, PIL. Artist FACS Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Trouble In Mind Buying Options 1LP , 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Constellation When You Say Slogan Class Spectre Still Life New Flag Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from FACS and more from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View FACS Present Tense Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Trouble In Mind | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 28th May 2021 £18.00 Select options FACS Present Tense £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Trouble In Mind Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 28th May 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View FACS Void Walker Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Trouble In Mind | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 27th March 2020 £18.00 Select options FACS Void Walker £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Trouble In Mind Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 27th 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