Adult Themes for Voice

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2007-09-04 rating:
Music? No. Sound/noise/audio? Absolutely.
I haven't bought this album but I have heard it. I wanted to write down a few words about this album. Firstly, I'm in no way going to criticise Mike Patton for releasing this album; it is what it is. br / br /What it is, is not what I would consider music but experimentation in sound and noise. For someone to describe this as experimental music or stretching the boundaries of music, you may as well describe every day sounds as music. And they're simply not. Music has rhythm, melody, harmony and composition. "Adult Themes for Voice" has none of these things. It is literally experimentation with sound. br / br /Traditional music fans and fans of Mike Patton's previous work, in particular Faith No More and his latest project, Peeping Tom, would very unlikely enjoy this, especially if you're expecting a solo music album. Sound engineers, music students and those into noise will lap it up. br / br /I rated this as two stars simply because it does not appeal. To give it one star would be unfair as it just isn't "my bag" but may well suit those into noise and experimental sound/audio perfectly. I can't imagine an occasion when I would sit and listen to this album - it's not sound to put on in the background nor something I could work to, although It's obvious that this album isn't for those occasions. I'm not sure I could spend the 44 minutes purely listening to this album either. I'm simply uninterested in listening in sound experimentation.

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review by: A soul doctor, so to say date: 2007-03-29 rating:
The vocal animal in the mineral man
Some classify this music in noise, and yet I think it is quite something else. It uses some noise, produced by instruments or not, distorts it in order to create a shrill universe that is rhythmically throbbing in multiple directions. But it also uses human voices or maybe just guttural noise, or even animal utterances that it modulates and even in a way transforms into a forest of growth and shoots that becomes like a maze or a net in which your ears are trapped. But at times, like with "the inconsolable widows in search of distraction", we reach the other side of voice, when we can discover the immensity of human feelings, sufferings or expectations that can inhabit these voices without us ever being able to realize it in simple conditions. It takes this formal work performed on them for the semantic draping, clothing and dressing to be unwrapped to reveal this pathetic, sensual, sensory and sensitive content. Voice then becomes what it is all the time and we ignore: the expression of the deepest physiological functioning of our body, flesh, nerves, bones and brain. Try track 17 when a woman is dressing in the skin of a lizard, or vice versa, and you'll see how cool and slick that female voice can be. Amazing how we feel the vast emptiness of space as seen through the eyes of the reptile. br / br /Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne br /

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review by: Eralos - animator date: 2007-01-12 rating:
The Ambition fulfilled later by Fantomas
This album is recorded using a 'TASCAM 4 - Track Portastudio', that may mean something more to technology fans, but to me it means 43 minutes of manical vocals provided by Mike Patton and a microphone. br /'Adult Themes fo Voice' represents a transitional phase from Patton's earlier projects to a style most accessible in fantomas. br /The album was released on John Zorn's record label TZADIK, and it is well known that Patton's ipecac label was founded for the release of a Fantomas debut, therefore in some places the album can lack some of the ambition and imagination that was later found in Fantomas. br /For any Patton fans this is an album that you will grow into, however if you are used to Faith no more and Mr bungle you might be disapointed by the lack of budget and ensemble.

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review by: date: 2006-08-05 rating:
Patton in 'fulful contractual obligation mode...'
The emporer's new clothes on vinyl. Mike Patton at his most ludicrous and self indulgent. An album full of atonal, non musical grunts, groans, whistles and other nonsense. br / br /A vile, despicable, thumb-of-the-teeth to his fans, Patton finally convinced me never to buy another one of his records with this audio effluent. He had a couple of good moments with Faith No More, and a couple of better ones with Mr Bungle, but nothing of note since. Shame really.


review by: date: 2004-12-11 rating:
amazing! no other words....
any die hard fan of Patton's work would understand the insanity in his lyrics can be transformed into anything he desires. even if it's just noises, this man knows how to keep people as his fans, and i will always be one.... find all the material he's been part of, this is just one piece of artwork by a great man.

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