Faith No More King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime 1995
Of all the Faith No More records this one I come back to over and over. Its a mix of different sounds, textures, and constructions. It walks a tight road of familiarity of Angel Dust, but has this cadence of feeling weathered, tattered, and exposed.
King For A Day is boastful, thematic, emotive, and caustic. Something that most of their majority of their work straddled in a status of eclectic, whereas this cements more accessible but with a twinge of fuck you for good measure. Gone is Jim Martin the founding guitarist, and in his place was Trey Spruance. I think he does a fine job making this is his own without copying Jim Martin's style.
Though their next and last release Album Of The Year was mellower, tamer, and conservative, this one belts the listener in the face with all of the different styles. For some this would evoke some irritation, for me I love all the changes this record has. Punk, funk, thrash, easy listening, metal, its spastic for the reasons of being competent without being unnerving.
By the end of the record it starts to wind down, and Mike Patton's voice is evoking the crooner, which throws off the listener a little because of how much it hits the heart. I think its genuine, in the fact there is a level of truth spoken in a manner that isn't polished, its rough, ugly, and somehow Mike elicits this without a sweat. Through his other bands: Tomahawk, Fantomas, and his solo Mondo Cane record, I keep coming back to this because it soothes. Faith No More's finest offering in my opinion. Thanks for reading.
B.
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