FAITH NO MORE — The Real Thing (review)

FAITH NO MORE — The Real Thing album cover Album · 1989 · Funk Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Warthur
Faith No More took a gamble letting Mr Bungle frontman Mike Patton take their lead vocalist spot, and it paid off marvellously on The Real Thing. Patton doesn't go weird with it to the extent that he would on most of his other projects, but nor does he appreciably play dumb; he spends the album sticking to a smoothly accessible vocal style, but is able to use it to far more ambitious effect than Faith No More would have been able to contemplate with Chuck Mosley - see Epic for a perfect example. The funk metal style of the Chuck era is still in play here, with the result that this is an adept transitional album, refining the band's earlier style and providing them with the breakthrough they needed to feel confident about following Patton down stranger twists and turns.
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