SUSPENDED ANIMATION

I don't think that I will ever understand the human mind or I suppose in this case the mind of a musician. As has been mentioned in other reviews Fantomas delivers material (difficult for me to use the term music) that has never been delivered before. But in my opinion, that is for good reason. There is pretty much nothing worth while to listen to on this album. It covers 30 compositions in 45 minutes. Each composition is made up of some musical notes haphazardly thrown together combined with seemingly random sounds, most the kind that would be heard in a children's cartoon, and combined with Mike Patton's patented guttoral screams. There are no lyrics to be heard here nor to be sung along to. Mike Patton's clean voice from his Faith No More days is nowhere to be heard on this album. The lack of lyrics might be fine if this were the type of instrumental album where you can play along on air guitar or air drums or hum along to the melodies and harmonies but these don't exist either. Sadly despite all of this, this album still somehow is more listenable than its predecessor Delirium Cordia, which was an even more dreadful listening experience. I suppose that I am probably not qualified to review this material since clearly I don't "understand" it or the artist's vision. If you get off on seemingly random musical notes combined with random sounds and guttural screams than this might be a 5 star album, but for someone like me who likes singable lyrics or at least drums and guitars that I can tap my feet to or hum along with this is clearly a 1 star affair.

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