On their sixth studio album Wish Defense (incoming Feburary 7, 2025 on Trouble In Mind Records), Chicago trio FACS take a good, long look in the mirror to face themselves. The group's guitarist/vocalist Brian Case notes that the album's lyrics evolve around doppelgängers or "doubles," tackling the idea of facing yourself and observing your ideas and motivations.
Listen to the Facs' brand new single below.
FACS' Brian Case says of the single: "The final track is also the final action, look in the mirror and ask the questions. It's a future self talking to a "you" from the past, assessing the path up until this point, questioning who you are. We bookended the album with the two songs that felt the most vulnerable and I think that really works with this idea of examining and challenging who you are and the perception of who you are."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9kgHbxjGrU&feature=youtu.be is the last album engineered by Steve Albini. Two days were recorded at Electrical Audio in early May of 2024 before Steve's untimely passing, with renowned engineer and friend Sanford Parker stepping in to finish the session 24 hours later, tracking the last bits of vocals and overdubs. Longtime collaborator John Congleton mixed the album as Albini would have, in Electrical Audio's A room, off the tape, using Albini's notes about the session.
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