Suspended Animation
by Fantômas
  • Record Label: Ipecac
  • Release Date: Apr 5, 2005
Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. AllMusic
    90
    There's less brooding menace and more giddy insanity -- without ever giving way to total chaos.
  2. Alternative Press
    80
    Intensely bizarre cartoon music. [May 2005, p.178]
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  3. Delusions of Adequacy
    80
    Though Suspended Animation boasts 30 tracks, it only runs some 40-odd minutes, and those are some of the most densely packed and bombastic minutes you’re likely to find on a record this year.
  5. Drowned In Sound
    70
    Fucking insane, whatever way you listen to it.
  6. Dusted Magazine
    80
    So is Patton a charlatan or a genius? While Suspended Animation doesn’t exactly settle the question, it’s shitloads of fun trying to find out.
  7. Junkmedia
    80
    Suspended Animation, on the whole, is a technical marvel; a kaleidoscopic foray into death metal, Looney Tunes sound effects, and an alarming balance of slapstick and pathos.
  8. New Musical Express (NME)
    60
    A 30-track nonsense-o-paedia of speed-metal twatabouts. [9 Apr 2005, p.58]
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  9. Pitchfork
    58
    With today's cartoons darker and more violent than ever, I'm sure cartoon music could someday sound as though influenced by Suspended Animation, but I highly doubt any rock music will.
  10. Playlouder
    80
    'Suspended Animation' is less a compendium of songs and more a splurging, raging, raping jazz metal fusion machine, weaving in samples, gong noises and assorted cartoon horror.
  11. PopMatters
    80
    A fascinating blend of the macabre and the lighthearted, something that will appeal to anyone who appreciates the darker side of both comedy and music.
  12. Rolling Stone
    60
    Miniatures of spaghetti-western spasm and speed-of-light viscera.
  13. Stylus Magazine
    75
    Although this LP is sequenced into tiny fragments of varying speeds of mood, the LP feels like one super-caffeine express fairground ride.
  14. The Wire
    50
    It begins as quite a thrilling ride. But at this level of concentration, ten minutes feels like an hour; it soon becomes enervating. [#255, p.55]
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  15. Tiny Mix Tapes
    90
    This album is not going to win the band many new fans, but it is certainly a treat for the converted.
  16. Uncut
    80
    Hilariously frenetic, perpetually distracted. [Jun 2005, p.116]
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User Score
8.1

Universal acclaim- based on 14 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 14
  3. Negative: 1 out of 14
  1. BingoI.
    Sep 15, 2008
    10
    this album is great!
  2. DavidF.
    Jan 11, 2008
    8
    I found this to be their most accessible release yet, and almost gave it a 9.
  3. AaronH
    Sep 2, 2006
    10
    I know, I know, putting a 10 may seem like a crass move. But the more I listen to this album, the more I'm convinced that it's one I know, I know, putting a 10 may seem like a crass move. But the more I listen to this album, the more I'm convinced that it's one of the greatest albums of the last couple of years. Patton & Co. have done it again!… Full Review »
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