Tomahawk
Mit Gas

THE REVIEW

Talking about an album that includes among its ranks a super gelled man named Mike Patton is never an easy task, especially when dealing with his thousand vocal and sonic experiments that everyone is now well aware of. But what happens when he tries to produce something that seems to have an extremely normal and simple conception? Well, what happens is yet another masterpiece emerges. Yes, because this Mit Gas is the worthy successor of the self-titled released in 2001, it's the album that acts as a glue, that aligns the aim, thus giving a more complete vision of what the four want to make us hear, which in my opinion wasn't clear in the first work. And allow me to say, it wasn't clear, but it was undoubtedly something extraordinary, something that was already perfect even if it lacked that crumb that arrived with Mit Gas. So, you're left there, amazed, mouth open listening to the genius of voices (and similar little voices) sing over an extremely alternative musical base which, however, with his voice and effects, elevates itself to become perfection, the album you play as soon as you get out of bed and listen to until you go back in, because it doesn't tire you, it doesn't seem like something you've already heard, it doesn't throw at you continuous brilliant ideas that in the long run don't provide a common thread, it’s unmistakably Patton-like, that's clear, but a Patton who seems willing to sacrifice a bit of his creativity to make room for the other three members as well, that Kevin Rutmanis whom I love so much, with his style playing as if he were almost making love to his bass, not to mention Stanier and his infamous, bastard riffs that grab you and don't let go, and then the essential Duane Denison who always knows where to hit without falling into useless parts.

Shall we talk about the individual songs now? Well, I don't think it makes sense because I see Patton’s albums as works in their indecipherable entirety, those works that when they end you say: "When the hell will I hear an album like this again?" Only when Mike decides to release another from that crazy brain of his.