Faith No More may have been metal innovator’s and highly original weirdsters, who spawned several imitators, but the reality is, despite their genial recorded output, frontman Patton was always at his most creative without the band. Mr Bungle, Peeping Tom, General Patton vs The Executioners, blah blah…a veritable feast of bizarre and highly inventive experimentation's. The soundtrack to dire action movie ‘Crank 2’ being no exception. Patton is a genius without debate, and here we are treated to another peculiar collection of sinister, jazzed up, surreal, avant-garde, spasticated, and unpredictable soundscapes.
Patton never fails to deliver. The freakish products of his own twisted mind often flash back to his Mr Bungle oddness, but always maintain high levels of madness. Creaks, whines, yawns, crunches, spits, chops and scratches weave together vast labyrinths of industrial trip-hop, funky death-groove, mechanised thrash dance and epileptic breakbeat brutality, at times interjected with his own vocal extremity. At once catchy as hell but also alien, Patton’s musings straddle electronic prog’ eeriness and accidental chart hit, should any such forms wean their way into the commercial abyss.
You never know what’s in store when Mike puts together another of those projects which invoke images of David Lynch, and other disturbing atmospheres. This is not for those seeking an accessible void, but instead caters for those with an eye for the surreal, and an ear for the downright strange. All hail the king of kings.
8/10
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