Faust: Faust IV (Virgin)
Ian MacDonald, NME, 13 October 1973
FAUST IV is the chronological successor of So Far (The Faust Tapes being from the period of the transparent album) and, as such, represents the group in its later, slightly more straight-forward phase.
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