Faith No MoreThe album where Mike Patton and all his weird influences and unhealthy obsessions spurted into the wider public’s unsuspecting eardrums, Angel Dust is a masterpiece of unrestrained creativity.
Whilst best remembered for a plethora of chart-friendly anthems, the funk-flavoured histrionics of Midlife Crisis the prime example, the barely categorisable likes of Caffeine and Malpractice epitomised FNM at their most visceral. Integrating film themes, Kronos Quartet samples and, goddamnit, even Lionel Richie songs, it’s a dirty, rotten cliché, but they really don’t make them like this anymore.
