ARTIST: The Faintest Ideas
TITLE: What Goes Up Must Calm Down
LABEL: Magic Marker Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 194kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 28m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-01-23
RIP DATE: 2007-01-18
Track List
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1. You're Beautiful 1:05
2. Dear Leibniz 1:48
3. Capitol Between Brackets 1:45
4. All Stars 2:08
5. Dexter's Got A Sinister Heart 2:29
6. Missed Misses 1:48
7. Everything Is Black 2:12
8. Gun Totin Hooligans 1:46
9. Nosebleeders On The Track 1:46
10. Try Too Hard 2:47
11. I Hear It But I Don't Like It 1:56
12. Mountain Of Tics 2:35
13. Nothing Will Ever Happen 1:53
14. Decapitated 1:19
15. Lose The Downside 1:04
Release Notes:
The Faintest Ideas started out as Javelins in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2003 as an
excuse to use some free studio time that the members previous bands never used,
so Martin, Christoffer and Daniel wrote a couple of songs, rehearsed them a few
times and in true punk manners went to the studio two weeks after their first
rehearsal and recorded an ep. And since they had a record, they decided to start
a label, and they called it Yellow Mica Recordings after a line in the first
song they wrote. The ep led to a gig at the legendary swedish festival ôMitt
nΣsta livö, and since they were one member short they borrowed a drummer from
the mod band The New Recruits that both Martin and Christoffer played in at that
time. After the gig Joel, a club organizer, label owner and solo artist under
the name Milkman, came up and introduced himself to the band and said that he
was the forth member they were looking for, and in that moment the band was
completed.
As a full band they wasted no time, but recorded some compilation tracks and 4
more ep┤s that got great reviews in indie zines and blogs all over the world,
played a handful of gigs in Sweden with bands as Boyracer, Dear Nora, Hormones
In Abundance, The Young Untold, Love Is All and Saturday Looks Good To Me and
gained a reptuation as the punky, noisy and chaotic band on the swedish indie
scene, which led to the interest from the new swedish label Melodrama who
re-released the first 4 sold out ep┤s and some bonus tracks as an album titled
ôTerrific times and unrehearsed crimesö in Januari 2006.
By now the band got offers from all their favourite labels to release records,
and like true gentlemen they said yes to all the offers they got, and recorded a
batch of songs to be released as an album on Magic Marker and Club Pop. They
named the album ôWhat goes up must calm downö and at the same time they came up
with a new moniker, The Faintest Ideas, to avoid being mixed up with all the
other bands named Javelins.
And so, here they are; The Faintest Ideas.