FACS – Wish Defense

The latest full-length release from Chicago band FACS sees the return of original member Jonathan Van Herik and features songs recorded by Steve Albini before he passed away with mixing by John Congleton. It’s an album that holds power found rarely these days – up there with Joy Division’s Closer in terms of transgressing the boundary between the macabre and ethereal, uniting music to dance to with spiritual experience, marking the twilight divide of utopia and dystopia.
With Wish Defense, FACS have made a record that is as much a piece of Steve Albini’s legacy as it is to their own magnum opus. It is challenging, confrontational, and relentless – but for all its darkness, something striking emerges. Not beauty in a conventional sense, but something raw, vivid, and impossible to ignore.
Vinyl LP
Tracklist:
A1 Talking Haunted 4:23
A2 Ordinary Voices 5:38
A3 Wish Defense 4:05
A4 A Room 3:18
B1 Desire Path 2:15
B2 Sometimes Only 6:26
B3 You Future 4:24