Album Review: Corpse Flower by Mike Patton

There really is no musician with as vast of a range of skills and styles as Mike Patton, and his latest collaborative album with French musician and composer Jean-Claude Vannier is a perfect example of how eclectic he is. The album dives into western-styled lounge music with a wide range of instruments and weirdness to keep listeners on their toes for each and every track.   With a vocalist as diverse as Patton, the album pulls very few tricks out of him early on, and instead focuses on his low drawl. Songs like "Camion" or "Chansons D ….

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The idea of the band isn't dead exactly, but the need for them is diminishing. The assumption that everyone has to be in the same room to collaborate is beginning to look superannuated and very much of the last century. Overdubbing has been possible for nearly 100 years, but file sharing and exchanging ideas electronically from different postcodes is relatively new, and more and more acts I interview seem to exist in different countries or continents, creating work together in cyberspace whilst being many miles apart.

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