A curious noise

Mike Patton, former singer with one of my favourite bands of my formative years Faith No More, has more bands on the go than you can shake a stick at these days: The Fantomas, Tomahawk, Dillinger Escape Plan and probably dozens of others that I can’t remember right now or haven’t even heard of.

His latest project – or one of them at least – is Peeping Tom which sees Mike collaborating with hip hop and electronica bods such as Massive Attack, Kool Keith, Dan The Automator, Amon Tobin and Norah Jones. Wait a minute… Norah Jones? That Norah Jones? Easy listening, folksy Norah Jones? Apparently so: they perform together on a track called “Sucker”. That’s Mike Patton – shouty, growly, occassionally neo-operatic purveyor of strange funk metal techno fusion type stuff – and Norah… Jones.

I can’t even begin to imagine what that is going to sound like.