The View from this Tower is the only full-length album by the band Faraquet

Faraquet

Faraquet is an influential post-hardcore band from Washington D.C. sometimes placed in the math rock genre. They were formed in 1997, and disbanded in 2001. They were on Dischord Records, and were influenced by bands like Fugazi, Jawbox, Nation of Ulysses, as well as King Crimson...

. Released on Dischord Records

Dischord Records

Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in the independent punk music of the D.C.-area music scene. The label is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded Dischord in 1980 to release Minor Disturbance by The Teen Idles...

 in 2000 (Dischord 122), it was their fourth, and last, recorded work.The album is also known for its instrumental fan favourite "The Missing Piece".

Reception

The Washington Post

The Washington Post

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, in reviewing the album, said, "the band has no interest in comfortable or communal moments. Its stand-offishness, however, is frequently bracing."

Track listing

1. "Cut Self Not" http://www.southern.com/southern/band/FARAQ/19622_audio
2. "Carefully Planned"
3. "The Fourth Introduction"
4. "Song for Friends to Me"
5. "Conceptual Separation Of Self" (Cello performed by Amy Domingues)
6. "Study in Complacency"
7. "Sea Song"
8. "The View from this Tower"
9. "The Missing Piece"