View From This Tower

Faraquet: Devin Ocampo (vocals, guitar, trumpet, keyboards, drums, percussion); Chad Molter (vocals, keyboards, bass, drums, percussion); Jeff Boswell (guitar, bass).
Recorded at Inner Ear Studios, Arlington, Virginia in February 2000.
Faraquet: Devin Ocampo (vocals, guitar, baritone guitar, trumpet, keyboards, drums); Chad Molter (vocals, keyboards, drums); Jeff Boswell (electric guitar, electric bass).
Fusing together the musical complication and ingenuity of King Crimson with the ferocity and D.C.-sound of Fugazi, Faraquet have created an album of technical, churning, and passionate frenzies collapsed into melodically pleasing atrophy. After several smaller releases of 7" singles and four songs on a split single with the choppy, quirk-filled Akarso, the band moved to Dischord for the release of their first full-length, The View From This Tower. May be considered one of the best debut releases of 2000. ~ Blake Butler