Faust - Faust IV CD (album) cover      3.90 | 143 ratings  From
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Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator 3 stars This is the
Faust album that divides opinion like no other - to some
(notably Julian Cope in his book on Krautrock) it's their lost
masterpiece, to others it's their weakest moment. Having been
signed to Virgin, they found themselves for the first time
recording away from their notorious Wumme studios and the
remarkable artistic freedom of those early years was drastically
curtailed. When the recording budget ran out (a frequent
occurrence in their anarchic career) the record company took
what was in the can and released it, the work of a severely
disgruntled band, to an apathetic public. it would be 20 years
before they released another studio album, though they continued
making music, and reissues and previously unreleased items
appeared throughout the 80s.  What we're left with is neither a
lost masterpiece nor a disaster. Perhaps