The Faint. [Oh. Uh Oh. Erection.]

"It's an orchard of peaches.
Your wife in the shower.
While you wait for appointments.
Or as you walk through the park.

Oh. uh oh. Erection."

The lyrics sound like a joke, but they're not- neither is this band.
Formed around 1995 in Omaha, Nebraska, by two brothers, a metal guitarist, a master bassist and another keyboarder named Jacob. They used to belong to Nebraskan Label "Saddle Creek Records", though I can't figure out who they're going with now. Wikipedia lists them as "Post-Punk Revival", and "Dance Punk"- in need for some elaboration? Wait for it, it's coming.
The lead singer, Todd Fink, is married to former label mate Orenda Fink. It seems normal enough, until I found out he took her last name and caused quite a stir on his local news channel, even prompting an anchor to call him a "loser" on AIR. There was speculation that he was trying avoid former fiscal troubles from catching up with him, but his name was eventually, and lawfully, changed. [Strange Coincidence? Jack White took his ex-wife's last name too, hm?] The reason he wanted her name was because she has, what sounds like, more of her foot in the door when it comes to the mainstream music business. Todd thought it'd be a smarter move to completely preserve her identity and change his own name, since his band hadn't made it too big yet and their identities are pretty mysterious, anyway. Well, so the point of this whole story is; I looked up Mrs. Orenda Fink, and get this last one: she's influenced by Haitian folk songs. Something to think about, on many different levels.
They're discography includes 5 full lengths, the most recent of them being "Fasciinatiion", and the most popular of them being "Wet From Birth".
"Wet From Birth" was featured on every boy game from the time it was released ['04] to now, or it seems like it: I first heard them on Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.
Needless to say, that album is easily my favorite. Their earlier tracks seem like a demo tape of William Control, and it's not a good sound. [not even for wiL francis. and he IS william control. Yeah, I went there.]
Now that they've grown into their style, I can say I partially agree with what the Wizard of Wikipedia categorized them as: but I think they're Post-Punk, not the revival of it.
The Faint has revolutionalized modern punk, and even if the old-school punk-rockers don't agree, The Faint isn't killing punk. Dance or Post-Punk isn't killing real punk. They're pointing kids lProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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e me to it's figurative location.