Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl 2. On the Way to Abamae 3. No Harm 4. So Far 5. Mamie Is Blue 6. I've Got My Car and My TV 7. Picnic on a Frozen River 8. Me Lack Space... 9. ...In the Spirit
| | Details | | Playing time: | 40 min. | | Producer: | Bureau Buskies (Reissue), Gunther Buskies (Reissue), Thomas Worthmann (Reissue), Uwe Nettelbeck | | Distributor: | Ryko Distribution | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Cut in 1972, the second recording from the German rockers features nine tunes, including "It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl," "Picnic On A Frozen River," "In The Spirit," "So Far Mamie Is Blue," and "I've Got My Car And TV." Faust (Kraut Rock): Jean-Herve Peron, Werner Diermaier, Rudolf Sosna, Gunther Wusthoff, Hans-Joachim Irmler. Though a commercial blip in its day, Krautrock has become one of the most enduring movements in music history, with countless indie acts namedropping the genre's most famous as influences. Now, as then, Hamburg's Faust gets the least love. Revisited Records hopes to change that with this long overdue reissue of the band's classic second long-player, SO FAR. One of the worst commercial failures in the history of Virgin Records, SO FAR was a slight capitulation to the marketplace after their mellow-harshing debut: there are some hints of accessible grooves (the mesmerizing opener, "It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl") and melodicism (the Jimmy Page-ish guitar and flute of "On the Way to Adamae") to pull in the faint of heart. Otherwise, SO FAR builds on the drastic pastiches of the first album: proto-industrial soundscapes evaporate into dreamier, layered ones and back again throughout the album's nine tracks. Faust didn't have the groove of Can, the thrust of Neu!, or the riffs of Amon Duul, but they had guts and an unsinkable sense of "anything goes." Given the success of industrial music and the uncompromising throb of the millennial American underground in places like Providence and Brooklyn, they also had a vision of the future. Essential for fans with adventurous ear drums.
| | Editorial reviews | [F]orward-looking tracks such as 'Mamie Is Blue' show that these people were truly ahead of their time. Q
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