Imagine your favourite film scores, chopped up and put into a blender. That’s basically the ethos of the brilliant second Fantomas album The Director’s Cut from 2001. It’s a millennium mashup like no other.
Essentially a bonkers supergroup, comprising Faith No More’s Mike Patton, Buzz Osbourne from The Melvins, Slayer’s Dave Lombardo and Trevor Dunn from Mr Bungle, it’s a dizzying homage to cinema sprinkled with battering ram, free jazz soaked metal. From ‘The Godfather’ to ‘Golem’, ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ to ‘Twin Peaks’ it’s sometimes as though they got a jukebox and reworked the themes as a prank. Yet it really works, as the musicians are amazing.
Forget Quentin Tarantino and his self-conscious seventies hipster aesthetic (as good as his choices often are) this is an experimental album that kicks ass until the credits roll.
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