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Wet From Birth
Electronic · 2004 · 10 tracks

Wet From Birth

The Faint

Aggressive analog synths and jagged disco rhythms collide in a sweat-soaked basement. An anxious, high-energy peak of the early 2000s dance-punk movement.

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It's like a gothic disco in a basement where the bass makes your teeth rattle.

Relentless, anxious energy that finds a strange, cathartic joy in the middle of a dark dance floor.

Wet From Birth · vs · The Faint
Nasal+1.2σ

The vocals lean notably further into nasal than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks
01
Desperate Guys
3:07
02
How Could I Forget?
3:18
03
I Disappear
4:07
04
Southern Belles in London Sing
3:32
05
Erection
2:45
06
Paranoiattack
4:17
07
Dropkick the Punks
2:29
08
Phone Call
4:03
09
Symptom Finger
3:28
10
Birth
3:20
Moments Worth Waiting For
The aggressive, siren-like synth hook that pierces through the opening of Desperate Guys.
The sudden shift into a paranoid, stuttering rhythmic breakdown during the bridge of Paranoiattack.
The unexpected integration of sharp, staccato strings that add a gothic weight to the dance beats.
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