FORT WORTH, Texas — When The Faint’s 2025 tour concluded Nov. 28 at The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, it marked more than the end of a run celebrating a milestone reissue. It revealed a band still in motion.
Spanning Nashville to Seattle, Chicago to Fort Worth, the tour supported the 25th anniversary of” Blank-Wave Arcade” and the 20th anniversary of “Wet from Birth”. But beneath the retrospection was something forward-looking: new songs tested live, revised in real time, and shaped by audience response.
Ahead of their Nov. 21 stop at Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall in Fort Worth, frontman Todd Fink, drummer Clark Baechle, keyboardist Graham Ulicny and guitarist Dapose sat down with UTA Radio’s Angie, host of “Eclectic Beats,” to discuss what’s next.
“We’re hammering out a new album.” Dapose confirms.
The band is currently performing three new songs live before recording final versions for an upcoming release.
Fink adds, “It’s always a good test to see how it feels live before you put it on an album.”
The latest single, “Projector Project!” released Oct. 17,2025, was recorded before road-testing — a reversal of their usual method.
The frontman hints that an album cut of the single may evolve further.
The Show: Sweat, Synth and a Texas Lasso
The Fort Worth performance balanced early staples with newer material, including “The Conductor,” “Take Me to the Hospital,” “Agenda Suicide,” “Projector Project!” and “Glass Danse,” among others.
The room pulsed under red and green lighting as sequenced basslines collided with live percussion. The crowd responded immediately to “The Conductor,” while “Projector Project!” proved the band’s new material holds weight beside decades-old tracks.
Mid-set, Fink paused to thank fans.
“It’s you, the fans, that make us do what we do,” he tells the crowd.
Later, wearing a sheriff’s badge, he spun his microphone cord like a lasso — a spontaneous Texas tribute born from a backstage joke. It was playful, unscripted and emblematic of a band comfortable in its identity.
Independence as Identity
Since finding their sound in 1999, The Faint has resisted trend-chasing. They declined major-label offers during the early-2000s dance-rock boom, choosing autonomy over saturation.
“You’re rewarded for being more yourself than anyone else can be,” Fink explains. “And you’re rewarded for going places that aren’t already cool.”
In an era defined by algorithms and rapid turnover, that philosophy feels increasingly rare.
Now on break after the tour, Fink balances music with entrepreneurship through Recapitate Headwear, his custom hat business — another outlet shaped by individuality and craft.
Legacy Without Stagnation
What makes the 2025 tour notable is not nostalgia. It’s movement.
The Faint are not preserving a frozen past. They are revising songs, testing ideas and refining their next record in front of live audiences.
The anniversary reissues honored where they’ve been. The new material hints where they’re headed.
And with the tour in the rearview, one truth remains clear:
The Faint doesn’t fade.
They evolve.
Catch the full interview with The Faint here.
