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Tracklist
1. 04/01/05 Friday
2. 04/02/05 Saturday
3. 04/03/05 Sunday
4. 04/04/05 Monday
5. 04/05/05 Tuesday
6. 04/06/05 Wednesday
7. 04/07/05 Thursday
8. 04/08/05 Friday
9. 04/09/05 Saturday
10. 04/10/05 Sunday
11. 04/11/05 Monday
12. 04/12/05 Tuesday
13. 04/13/05 Wednesday
14. 04/14/05 Thursday
15. 04/15/05 Friday
16. 04/16/05 Saturday
17. 04/17/05 Sunday
18. 04/18/05 Monday
19. 04/19/05 Tuesday
20. 04/20/05 Wednesday
21. 04/21/05 Thursday
22. 04/22/05 Friday
23. 04/23/05 Saturday
24. 04/24/05 Sunday
25. 04/25/05 Monday
26. 04/26/05 Tuesday
27. 04/27/05 Wednesday
28. 04/28/05 Thursday
29. 04/29/05 Friday
30. 04/30/05 Saturday
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Fantomas just might be the strangest musical project ever to commit a track to a CD. This eclectic super-group of oddly paired musicians follows up last year's 'Delìrium Cordìa', (which was just one extremely loooooooong song) with the antithesis to that project, the wonderfully bizarre 'Suspended Animation' which features thirty insane bursts of sonic curiosities clocking in at forty-three minutes. One may only speculate what brought the likes of Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle), Dave Lombardo (Slayer, Grip Inc.), Buzz Osbourne (Melvins) and Trevor Dunn, (well, this makes sense of course, he was a member of Mr. Bungle as well) together to make this type of musical anarchy, but it is certainly some of the most out there music you have ever heard in your whole life. Each track is named after a day in April 2005, to add to the ultra kookiness. The freak-out gets underway with 04/01/05 and remains deliciously far-out until 04/30/05. Got it? 04/06/05 is a doozy, with a mean thrash riff that runs in between some whacky sounding trippiness that is reminiscent of a musical Quaalude. Fantomas often sound like a cross between black metal on 78 RPM, someone choking the hell out of Roger Rabbit and R2-D2. Take the track 04/08/05, for instance. You've got to wonder exactly what is going through Mike Patton's head throughout the course or his daily life. Abnormal does not begin to describe this orchestrated insanity. 04/10/05 is a cute one; it sounds like a bunch of toys running out of batteries. By 4/13/05 you're halfway through the month and also listening to one of the neatest little ditties on the album. On 04/18/05, which is Sunday if you're keeping track of things, Lombardo lets out some furious blasts while Patton gets happy with some mellow loopiness on 04/20/05, which has a quite nasty little buzz in the center of the track that will melt your brain. On 04/21/05, there's a little baby making funny noises and baby noises are always really cute! Remember the baby in the sun on TeleTubbies? It sounds a lot like that thing before Patton starts to mimic guitar triplets with his voice, well, mainly with his tongue. It seems like 04/25/05 goes by really quick with a twisted cabaret whine. For those of you who like your ABC's, 04/26/05 is a great time to sing them! Boy is the month going quickly! If Mr. Bungle were a punk rocker on acid, he would sound a lot like 04/30/05 which fades off into a pool of splazz. What's splazz? Who knows, but it sure sounds cool. And so does this record.
Review by: Erin Fox
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