Faith No More's masterpiece

Three years earlier, managed Faith No More with 'The Real Thing' breakthrough, but with 'Angel Dust' they delivered on their masterpiece. Never before and never again after that the band was so creative, never showed themselves willing to experiment.

One Mekt the album to the stronger influence of Michael Patton, in 1991 with his second combo Mr. Bungle already showed how happy he is working with complicated song structures. Advance should be said that this is not an album that you can hear the way. The album starts still reasonably expected to result in Land Of Sunshine, but you can hear directly that Michael Patton has developed his voice. He will use his voice on the whole album as another instrument, a kind of weaponry. On the second piece 'Caffeine', tremendously bleak and drawn by constant tempo changes, Patton is this arsenal because also in all its diversity. It follows 'Midlife Crisis', the first single; a sort of rap-rock. 'RV' includes even country elements. 'Smaller and Smaller' is considerably gloomier again; middle believed an Indian ceremony attend before a another tempo change brings back the song. 'Everything's Ruined "is clearly mass-compatible, has a great rhythm and a soft chorus (as it were the' From Out Of Nowhere 'Angel Dust). Malpractice heard again bitter to the genus; Patton overused even his vocal cords and the tempo of the song will change permanently. Then comes the musically somewhat shallower 'kindergarten', another rap rock number. It follows with 'Be Aggressive' a piece in which you can mitbrüllen the chorus very good if it does not take the neighbors because a foul. 'A Small Victory' is again mass-compatible and was therefore also single (by the way: the remix single this is great). 'Crack ***** H' is another unusual song, as regards construction and design. 'Jizzlobber' is absolutely worth listening late at night on the headphones. This song can give a goosebumps. Michael Patton case requires his voice from all. The rhythm, the keyboard, the voice and the divine finale make this song for me the secret top song of this album. The last song (without the album packed retrospectively cover version of The Commodores "Easy") 'Midnight Cowboy' allows the listener again come down and to reduce the adrenaline levels.

Every song on this album is convincing and the album itself is one of the strongest of the 90's for me.