Faith Assembly
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Faith Assembly is a Synthpop
Synthpop
Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...

 project run by Mark Stacy, who founded the project and currently continues it in the USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. Stacy started out releasing recordings on his own Record Label, The Diary of Winter Publishing, and later was taken on by the record label A Different Drum
A Different Drum
A Different Drum is an independent record label and online store based in the US state of Utah, specializing in synthpop and related genres...

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Faith Assembly has produced a number of albums and several singles, their most famous within the underground synthpop scene probably being Shades of Blue and Red Ambition. Faith Assembly's songs often feature on A Different Drum
A Different Drum
A Different Drum is an independent record label and online store based in the US state of Utah, specializing in synthpop and related genres...

 compilations and taster CDs.

Style

Using the classic 80s synthpop sound in the early albums such as Shades of Blue and The Diary of Winter, Stacy makes use of guitars, retro synths, samples from old films and female vocals to produce a sound not unlike 80s groups ABC
ABC (band)
ABC are an English band, that charted ten UK and five US Top 40 singles between 1981 and 1990. The band continues to tour and released a new album, Traffic, in 2008.-Formation:...

, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are a synthpop group whose founding members are originally from the Wirral Peninsula, England...

 and Simple Minds
Simple Minds
Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band who achieved worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The band produced a handful of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s and best known for their #1 US, Canada and Netherlands hit single "Don't You ", from the soundtrack of the...

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Albums

Year Title Notes
1993 Shades Of Blue
Shades of Blue (Faith Assembly album)
Faith Assembly is known as the modern New Romantic band.-Original Release :# "Redemption"# "Denial"# "Sand Castles"# "Solitude"# "Captive"# "Pool Of Tears"# "Darkness"# "Rian"-Re-released :# "Redemption"# "Denial"# "Sand Castles"...

1st studio album; Reissued in 1998
1997 My Mortal Beloved
My Mortal Beloved
My Mortal Beloved is the second album by Faith Assembly. It includes the popular Synthpop hit "Red Ambition" and the modern New Wave classic "Her Deepest Sleep".-Track listing:# "Persuasion"# "Unraveled"# "Evil Twin Sister"# "Red Ambition"...

2nd studio album
2000 Ghosts I Have Been 3rd studio album; Reissued in 2009
2003 Windmills
Windmills (Faith Assembly album)
Windmills is a collection of exclusive songs and favorite remixes from the first ten years of Faith Assembly's underground music career. Some of the tracks are pulled from the band's popular singles, and others were created just for this collection....

remix album with studio tracks + DVD
2008 Descent Into Madness
Descent into Madness
Descent into Madness is the fourth album by Faith Assembly.-Track listing:# "Descent into Madness"# "Amnesia"# "Charlatan"# "Dark Horse"# "Fade to Black"# "Carry Me"# "Flight"# "Ever After"# "Mercenary"# "Straight Jacket"...

4th studio album
2011 Dreams from Arcadia Greatest Hits Compilation Album from 1991–2011

EP

Year Title Notes
1991 The Diary of Winter
The Diary of Winter
The Diary of Winter is an EP released by Faith Assembly in 1991.-Original Release :# "Reflections in the Window"# "Fiction"# "Heaven's Gate"# "The First Day of Autumn"-Re-released :# "Reflections in the Window"# "Fiction"# "Heaven's Gate"...

EP; Reissued in 1996

Singles

Year Title Album
1993 "Denial" 1 Shades of Blue
1994 "Redemption" 1
1994 "Pool of Tears" 1
1996 "Reflections in the Window" 1 The Diary of Winter
1996 "Her Deepest Sleep" My Mortal Beloved
1997 "Red Ambition"
1999 "Crash and Burn" Ghosts I Have Been
2006 "Carry Me" 1 Descent into Madness
2009 "Scarborough Fair
Scarborough Fair
"Scarborough Fair" is a traditional ballad of the United Kingdom.The song tells the tale of a young man, who tells the listener to ask his former lover to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making him a shirt without a seam and then washing it in a dry well, adding that if she...

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  • 1 Limited promo release
  • 2 Digital single

Similar musical style to Faith Assembly

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
    Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
    Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are a synthpop group whose founding members are originally from the Wirral Peninsula, England...

  • Simple Minds
    Simple Minds
    Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band who achieved worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The band produced a handful of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s and best known for their #1 US, Canada and Netherlands hit single "Don't You ", from the soundtrack of the...

  • Depeche Mode
    Depeche Mode
    Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...

  • ABC
    ABC (band)
    ABC are an English band, that charted ten UK and five US Top 40 singles between 1981 and 1990. The band continues to tour and released a new album, Traffic, in 2008.-Formation:...


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