Dance-punk vets The Faint have announced deluxe reissues of 1999’s Blank-Wave Arcade and 2004’s Wet From Birth, along with a spring tour. Both reissues will be out March 14 via Saddle Creek, and this marks the first time that The Faint’s full catalog will be available on vinyl. Preorder here.
Both reissues come with a bonus disc of rare and unreleased tracks, including demos, “unrealized” versions of songs, remixes, live cuts and more. The band have shared one of the Wet From Birth bonus songs, “Zealots.” Says frontman Todd Fink, “This song came from a dream Jacob had (our late keyboard player). In the dream, people were chanting, ‘You will know we are zealots by our guns.’ The lyrics are about the paradox between Christianity’s core message of love and the obsession with guns among some of its followers.” Listen below.
To celebrate the reissues, The Faint have lined up a spring tour that hits the West Coast, Southwest and Midwest in March and April. All dates are listed below.
Wet From Birth (Deluxe Edition)
DISC 1
01 Desperate Guys
02 How Could I Forget?
03 I Disappear
04 Southern Belles in London Sing
05 Erection
06 Paranoiattack
07 Dropkick the Punks
08 Phone Call
09 Symptom Finger
10 Birth
DISC 2
01 Zealots (Unrealized)*
02 Mister (Unrealized)*
03 Birth (Thailand Demo)
04 Desperate Guys (Demo)*
05 Symptom Finger (Demo)*
06 Paranoiattack (Demo)*
07 Hypnotised
08 I Disappear (FC Kahuna Remix)
*Previously unreleased
Blank-Wave Arcade (Deluxe Edition)
DISC 1
01 Sex Is Personal
02 Call Call
03 Worked Up So Sexual
04 Cars Pass in Cold Blood
05 Casual Sex
06 Victim Convenience
07 Sealed Human
08 In Concert
09 The Passives
DISC 2
01 Cars Pass in Cold Blood (Recordist Remix)
02 Worked Up So Sexual (The Laces Remix)
03 The Passives (AJ/DJ Remix)
04 In Concert (The New Gender Remix)
05 Call Call (Transistor3 Remix)
06 Sealed Human (][‘m Remix)
07 Sex is Personal (The Faint 2024 Remix)*
08 Brokers, Priests, and Analysts
09 Cars Pass in Cold Blood (Live)*
10 In Concert [The New Gender Remix (Live)]*
11 Call Call (Live)*
*Previously unreleased
The Faint – 2025 Tour Dates
Mar-21 – Santa Barbara, CA @ SoHo
Mar-22 – Las Vegas, NV @ Backstage Bar & Billiards
Mar-24 – Tucson, AZ @ 191 Toole
Mar-25 – Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf
Mar-27 – Tulsa, OK @ The Vanguard
Mar-28 – Kansas City, MO @ Warehouse on Broadway
Mar-29 – St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall
Mar-31 – Cincinnati, OH @ The Ballroom at The Taft
Apr-01 – Detroit, MI @ El Club
Apr-03 – Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
Apr-04 – Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre
Apr-05 – Des Moines, IA @ Wooly’s