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MIKE PATTON | CHAPTER NINE

Mike is lost.

To elaborate, I feel like since his main project Faith No More (he sees it as all his projects being main projects but I feel like it’s a fair thing to say) broke up, Patton just hasn’t really had a direction. He’s all over the place, doing insignificant self-indulgent avant garde noise projects with little to no substance to them.

And well, that continues on here. Maldoror sees the master of all linking up with Japanese noise musician Merzbow, which sounds like a match made in heaven if done right. And was it done right? Well, it’s basically your standard Merzbow affair with Mike occasionally doing his weird vocal babble. No kidding, I swear he takes up maybe a total of five minutes on the entire project. It starts to become sludge at a certain point. My brain is blank. And then it’s just boring. It’s a pretty pointless and redundant affair that sees itself encountering little to no switchups each song. Hell, this even sounds like Weird Little Boy kind of, so it’s not even very unique in its own right.

There’s not a lot here for fans of Mike Patton, and fans of Merzbow will likely find it more of the same.

To give this a review a positive ending, this dry spout is over, and I’m completely sure of it with the next album.