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FANTOMAS

by By Stephen R. Hart

August 18, 2005

“SUSPENDED ANIMATION”



Well, supposedly this album was created in conjunction with Delerium Cordia, the ambient third studio album from Fantomas. Suspended Animation is similar to the first self-titled album, using cartoon samples instead of horror and kung-fu movie soundtracks. Ideas bounce around this album like the bubble machine in Willie Wonka. Just when you think you have a grasp of where the band is going, a contrasting blast of sound rips you out of complacency. Each song is based on a miniature holiday in the month of April; April 9th is the “Day of the Amazon Goddess” in Brazil, while April 30th is “National Honesty Day,” celebrated in the U.S. Take a moment to imagine what an Honesty Day would sound like—I thought it would be silence. Instead, Fantomas plays it as a Les Baxter lounge tune morphing into a Cro-Mags type of riff trailing off in ambient moaning. Then, Bugs Bunny asks, “What did you expect in an opera, a happy ending?” —Ipecac Records 2005