Faith No More - Angel Dust
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Artist: Faith No MoreEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 1992-06-16
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Land of Sunshine
- Caffeine
- Midlife Crisis
- RV
- Smaller and Smaller
- Everything's Ruined
- Malpractice
- Kindergarten
- Be Aggressive
- Small Victory
- Crack Hitler
- Jizzlobber
- Midnight Cowboy
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Free Music Review: "You're perfect, yes, it's true."
Hit: 5 Stars
When Faith No More went into the making of their second album with Mike Patton on vocals, only two things stayed the same: the line-up and the producer, Matt Wallace, who brought the band's ground-breaking "The Real Thing" to life. Between albums, Patton had dabbled in his previous outfit, Mr. Bungle, recording an entire album before reconvening with the rest of the band to record what would ultimately be a bizarre but satisfying departure from its predecessor. Rejecting the arena-friendly metal and hard-rock that their touring mates in Metallica and Guns N' Roses promoted at the time, "Angel Dust" instead indulges in the macabre of metal, leaning on the band's funky side and Patton's strange sense of humor, unwittingly giving birth to a genre and a generation of bands that fit the bill of the much maligned "nu-metal" era.
As the first album with Mike Patton fully integrated into the group, there is a notable shift in direction for the band. In fact, the sound is so drastically different from its predecessor that it alienated guitarist Jim Martin - playing for his last time with the band on this record - to the point where he wasn't even invited to the recent reunion of the band. But whatever the casualty of the band's creativity, it worked for the best. From top to bottom, "Angel Dust" is a remarkable step up in quality from "The Real Thing," and not to mention, not as dated. "Caffeine" and "Midlife Crisis" keep the more straight-forward rock intact, with Martin belting out sustained and substantial riffs amidst the A.D.D. afflicted performance by Patton and a groovy rhythm section. Elsewhere, the album takes bolder and quirkier turns. "RV" is best described as a trailer-trash ballad, with crooning so convincing you forget it's meant as mockery. "Be Aggressive" tackles subject matter not appropriate for this review and enough to make keyboardist Roddy Bottum blush, featuring back-up vocals by a cheerleading squad. The longer the album goes on, the weirder it gets. "J---lobber" brings the experimentation full circle, playing almost like an acid trip in prison, while a cover of John Barry's "Midnight Cowboy" closes the album, dropping you off in a place so far removed from the opening track, "Land of Sunshine," that you'll have to play the album back to figure out how you got from point A to point B.
Truth be told, "Angel Dust" is hardly an easy album to appreciate, especially for those mostly acquainted with the band through the likes of "Epic" or "Falling to Pieces." Regardless, it's an album that has surely stood the test of time, never getting old and never failing to entertain. Patton and company seem bound and determined to pull out all the stops to entertain their audience (and perhaps, more importantly, themselves) and what results is a seminal and original album whose influence resonates today. Regardless of where their legacy led them or who they influenced in their wake, Faith No More will always be remembered as the fearless and unapologetic group they were, and nothing is more of a testament to that fact than "Angel Dust."
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An amazing album, Angel Dust unfortunately has limited appeal, although perhaps "unfortunately" isn't the right word; the record's oddities are also what make it such a fascinating listen. "Land of Sunshine" is a rocker with a foot-tapping rhythm punctuated by insane laughter from vocalist Mike Patton, whose distinctive voice and frequently disturbing lyrics drive the album. To call it hard rock does Angel Dust a disservice; it's far more musically complex than such a label implies. There's the funk-influenced "Midlife Crisis," the ballad "RV" (a bitter monologue from the point of view of a middle-aged discontent sitting in his trailer), the hard-edged claustrophobia of "Smaller and Smaller," and the rock-married-to-electronic-organ "Be Aggressive," which includes positively inspired cheerleader chants on the chorus. Impossible to classify but incredibly entertaining (there isn't a single boring moment on this album), Angel Dust is well worth picking up. --Genevieve WilliamsAlternative Rock Music CDs
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