Suppose there was an album so impressive that someone named their music
blog after it? In the heyday of the "sharity" blogosphere, there was (and still is) indeed a site that took it's name from the very album I'm offering here.
Faith Global's lone LP, in my opinion, isn't of epochal, ground-shifting caliber, but it's still pretty damn good. Featuring ex-
Ultravox (John Foxx era) guitarist
Stevie Sheers, F/G were an even more sonically broader proposition, with heavy angularities in the vicinity of early '70s Bowie, Psych Furs, Japan, and more negligibly Gary Numan. Heck, they even roped in Furs sax-finagler
Duncan Kilburn for a few songs, thus fortifying my comparison. More art-pop than snyth, and thankfully
not run-of-the-mill new wave, F/G's arrangements were fairly dense, sophisticated, and downright stirring at times, particularly on the throbbing "Love Seems Lost" and "Hearts and Flowers." Elsewhere, "Forgotten Man" dabbles with an irresistible funk groove, and the concluding "Facing Facts" emanates shades of "Space Oddity."
As you might imagine, The Same Mistakes blog once featured the album in question, but this rip was taken from my personal copy. You can read their write-up, however the site's download link expired. Regrettably, I'm not in possession of Faith Global's preceding 1982 ep, Earth Report.
01. The Same Mistakes
02. Forgotten Man
03. Hearts & Flowers
04. Knowing the Way
05. Love Seems Lost
06. Coded World
07. Yayo
08. Slaves to This
09. Facing Facts
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