Faith No More - Angel Dust (1992, MFSL 2008) RESTORED

Angel Dust is the fourth studio album by Faith No More and it was the second to feature Mike Patton on vocals and the final with long time guitarist Jim Martin. To this day it is still held in very high regard as one of the most influential records of the '90s and many consider this album to be Faith No More at their finest. It was on Angel Dust that Mike Patton came into his own and Billy Gould, Roddy Bottum and Mike "Puffy" Bordin, thanks to the success of The Real Thing, had more confidence in their ability to create the album they truly wanted to. At the same time, guitarist Jim Martin began to become dissatisfied with the direction that their music was going and after touring to support Angel Dust in the summer of 1992, he exited the band due to internal conflicts. Here on Mobile Fidelity Numbered Limited Edition Gold CD…

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Warner Bros. figured that lightning could strike twice at a time when oodles of (most horribly bad) funk-metal acts were following in Faith No More's and Red Hot Chili Peppers' footsteps. In response, the former recorded and released the bizarro masterpiece Angel Dust. Mike Patton's work in Mr. Bungle proved just how strange and inspired he could get given the opportunity; now, in his more famous act, nothing was ignored. "Land of Sunshine" starts things off in a vein similar to The Real Thing, but Patton's vocal role-playing is smarter and more accomplished, with the lyrics trashing a smug bastard with pure inspired mockery. From there, Angel Dust mixes the meta-metal of earlier days with the expected puree of other influences, including a cinematic sense of atmosphere. The album ends with a cover of John Barry's "Midnight Cowboy", which suits the mood perfectly, but the stretched-out, tense moments on "Caffeine" and the soaring charge of "Everything's Ruined" make for other good examples. Even a Kronos Quartet sample crops up on the frazzled sprawl of "Malpractice". Other sampling and studio treatments come to the fore throughout, adding quirks like the distorted voices on "Smaller and Smaller". The band's sense of humor crops up frequently – there's the hilarious portrayal of prepubescent angst on "Kindergarten", made all the more entertaining by the music's straightforward approach, or the beyond-stereotypical white trash cornpone narration of "RV", all while the music breezily swings along. Patton's voice is stronger and downright smooth at many points throughout, the musicians collectively still know their stuff, and the result is twisted entertainment at its finest.

~ Ned Raggett, all media guide

Tracklist:

01. Land Of Sunshine
02. Caffeine
03. MidLife Crisis
04. RV
05. Smaller And Smaller
06. Everything's Ruined
07. Malpractice
08. Kindergarten
09. Be Aggressive
10. A Small Victory
11. Crack Hitler
12. Jizzlobber
13. Midnight Cowboy

all songs written by Faith No More except "13" by John Barry


Original Recording Produced by Matt Wallace and Faith No More
Engineered and Mixed by Matt Wallace. Co-Mixed by David Bryson.
Recorded at Coast Recorders and Brilliant Studios, San Francisco, CA, January – March 1992
Mixed at Scream Studios, Studio City, California.

2008's MFSL edition Mastered from the original Ѕ”, 2-track, 30 i.p.s. master mixes
by Rob LoVerde at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Sebastopol, CA

MFSL engineers were quite impressed with the dynamic range and natural tonality present on the master tapes. When compared to previous versions, the new MFSL GAIN 2 mastering is much more dynamic and reveals detail and subtleties not heard on other versions. This new MFSL Gold CD allows the full dynamic range to shine through, giving fans the chance to hear this album the way it was heard at Scream Studios, where mixing was expertly performed by Matt Wallace and David Bryson.

• Mike Patton – vocals
• Jim Martin – guitars
• Billy Gould – bass
• Roddy Bottum – keyboards
• Mike Bordin – drums

BT Found and Repacked,
Thanks to the original Releaser!

Original Release Date: June 8, 1992
MFSL Re-Release Date: September 16, 2008
Format: Original Recording Remastered
24 Karat Gold - Ultradisc II, Numbered Ltd. Edition
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Catalog No.: UDCD 787