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Those who know Mike Patton best as the lead singer for anthemic metal pioneers Faith No More may be surprised to hear Fantomas's The Director's Cut; it's apparent that, post-FNM, his sympathies lay not in the punishing riffs of nu-metal, but in the most perverse reaches of the avant-garde. Fantomas brings together Melvin's guitarist Buzz Osbourne, one-time Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo and bassist Trevor Dunn from Patton's long-running experimental project Mr Bungle--a line-up that should suggest something of the pretension, eccentricity and pure gut-churning heaviness that appears on this, their cinematically-conceptual second album. The Directors' Cut consists of 15 bizarre interpretations of the scores to their favourite cinematic moments, from modern horror landmarks--see the sludged uptake on Angelo Badalamenti's haunting Twin Peaks theme "Fire Walk With Me"--to ancient birth-of-cinema classics--look to the grindingly heavy death metal reworking of Karl-Ernst Sasse's terrifying theme to The Golem. Guided by Patton's gliding falsetto, the cover of Henry Mancini's Experiment In Terror score could almost be Faith No More--but such palatable moments are few and far between on this occasionally inspired catalogue of punishing weirdness. --Louis Pattison
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album is definitely the best thing that Mike Patton has released since Mr. Bungle's "California" album. On this album, instead of featuring short 30 second musical vignettes of undeveloped ideas as on all of Fantomas' other 3 releases (albeit cut-and-pasted together on Delerium Cordia), Mike Patton and co. do Mr. Bungle-esque arrangements of film themes from some of the masters of the genre (Morricone, Rota, Mancini...). Although this idea had already been explored by Trey Spruance on Secret Chiefs 3's "2nd Grand Constitution and Bylaws" (worth checking out if you like this one), Patton (as arranger, producer and band leader) definitely brings his own unique spin to these tunes in the arrangements and his vocals are the best he has done for fantomas (he has to sing the melody lines of these film themes as opposed to his normal "wacka-jawaka-shaka-splaka" nonsense for fantomas). Highlights include the opening "Godfather" theme tune (sombre strings one moment, giving way to 200mph death metal), "Experiment in Terror" (loungey spy music giving way to swinging metal, with MP's vocals on top form), "Twin Peaks" (Trip hop-sounding tune with another great vocal performance) and "Charade" (genre bending bungle-ish sounding arrangement with a great demonstration of Patton's stylistic range vocally). Sadly, as great as this album is, the fact that Patton didn't write any of the music on the album himself is further proof that Patton's hectic work ethic/schedule is preventing him from producing any of his own tunes to match the quality of his songs for "California".
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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i bought the debut album two years ago and took it back to the shop the same day. i might just go and revisit it now. this album is brilliant. it suits patton down to the ground to do this sort of thing. patton has always been about bringing tremendous atmosphere to his songs whether they be FNM ballads such as just a man, or bungle tracks such as pink cigarette. what better genre for producing atmospheric tunes than film soundtracks? some bits are slow and melodic, others would make speed metal freaks want to go and sit in a chill out room. there is a definitely dark and sinister theme which dominates the album (most tracks are taken from horror films), and there is a lot of singing which patton has always done so well (unfortunately, totally absent from debut album). it is also very reminiscent of the more extreme side of mr. bungle, particularly bits of disco volante. if you're wondering whether or not to get this album or the debut, go for this one first, you will not be prepared for the debut unless you do, no matter how much you like patton. why only four stars? - it's not long enough. Oh, and don't expect it to allow you to win friends and influence people, on hearing this most peolple will think you are insane for liking it.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Mike Patton is a man of many talents. Strange, self-obsessed and eclectic, his midas touched has graced the records of several acclaimed bands in the last decade, including Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk, and now the Fantomas. Featuring members of the Melvins, Mr. Bungle and Slayer, this band forms some kind of 'anti-supergroup', aiming to expand and confuse their listener's minds, rather than squeeze a few more dollars from their collective fanbases.
The record takes an all new perspective on some classic movie scores. From the opening visceral assault of 'The Godfather' to the electro, dare I say, trip-hop version of Twin Peaks 'Fire Walk With Me', this album never lets you settle. Patton has never been one to go with the flow, and here he pokes and prodes at your sense of musical decency, taking stone cold classic movie soundtracks and daring to put a new slant on them. But the simple fact is that in most cases its worked. This album is really good. Patton, the Melvins, and Mr.Bungle can produce utter toss at times (look no further than the Fantomas awful first album), but this is proper Patton. Proper music. Not just distrion and samples and noise, but top quality versions of great songs. On first listen you might not get the fact that Charade was a great song, but thats not the point with the Fantomas. Quite frankly if i got this on first listen I'd be disappointed.
But anyway, enough of my ramblings. Buy this.....seriously.....you won't regret it.
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Best Album of 2001
Mike Patton (Faith No More) leads the alumni of The Melvins, Slayer, and Mr Bungle through a succinct collection of jazz-metallised movie theme tunes. Read more
Published on 9 Dec 2009 by Mr. M. A. Reed
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Warning a threat to your CD collection
Don't buy this album, infact try to steer clear of most of Mike Patton's work, your CD collection will seem to be very bland and you'll hardly ever listen to at least 50% of your... Read more
Published on 1 May 2002
Mike Patton surely is a God
well what can be said about the follow up Fantomas album?! unlike the self titled debut album Mike Patton sings in almost every song! which i think is a good thing! Read more
Published on 13 Aug 2001 by "stoned_monkey"
Album of the year...so far
I admit I was a bit concerned about the turnout of this album, to do covers songs all from films doesn't sound like much of a good idea. Read more
Published on 14 July 2001
Interesting listen to say the least
This is a great album. Though not as strange as Fantomas's self titles debut it certainly is very much different from anything else released at the moment. Read more
Published on 9 July 2001 by "fowlyetti"
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