The Faint: Underworld Camden
Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 3 February 2003
AT FIRST it's hard to know how seriously to take The Faint. They look like they are re-enacting an episode of The Tube from 1981 and have the kind of song titles — 'Cars Pass In Cold Blood', 'Ballad of a Paralysed Citizen' — not witnessed since Ultravox hung up their overcoats. If they came from London or New York you would suspect them of being smirking ironists but in fact their home is Omaha, Nebraska, not a town famed for its love of smirking irony.
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