Suspended Animation:Fantômas

Title: Suspended Animation.

Label: IPECAC

Genre: schizophrenic sound collage

Rating: 6 of 7

I know that the word, schizophrenic, is heavily used in music reviews (mine especially) to define Zach Hill-esque drumming and such, but the term has never been so close to truth as it does for defining this album. Fantômas, one of Mike Patton’s more popular and wide-known projects, is back again with another album chock full of ambient madness, discomforting sound clips and metal drum fills. Made up of Patton (Faith No More, IPECAC mastermind), Dave Lombardi (Slayer), Buzz Osborne (Melvins) and Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle), the band has knocked out thirty ~1:30 songs with absolutely no cohesion save randomness. Named after all of the days in April (ex. #1 – 04/01/05, #2 – 04/02/05, #27 – 04/27/05, etc) the tracks mesh together like a soundtrack to that final moment right before the world falls into chaotic apocalypse. So play, if you dare, and listen to the undisputed furor of the A.D.D. generation.

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