FARAQUET - The View From This Tower LP

Remastered from the original tapes.

Faraquet began as a side project featuring SMART WENT CRAZY members Devin Ocampo and Jeff Boswell, along with Devin's high school friend Chad Molter. Faraquet stepped up as a full-time band after the demise of SWC and started playing more shows, releasing a couple of singles as well as appearing on a split CD with Akarso.

Due to their non-traditional time signatures and off-kilter arrangements the band was often described as “math-rock” - a description they never warmed to.

Faraquet felt more aligned with the Minutemen and both the passion of their live performance and their advanced sense of melody set them well above and apart from the basement scientist crowd.

Faraquet instead defines themselves by a turbulence--one that swirls and ebbs and flows as the album progresses, only to calm and ramp up again. Their refined yet coarse sound sets them apart from their comp sets--between the shifty drum lines on the title track, the staccato intermissions of "The Fourth Introduction", or the total collapse of comprehensibility near the end of "Sea Song". This album brings you through the highs and lows of the late 90s, early 2000s post-rock scene, at both its strongest and most absurd.