(Alternative Metal) [LP] [16/44] Faith No More - Angel Dust - 1992 1st UK Pressing, FLAC (tracks)

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Unless otherwise stated here is the technical info on my vinyl rips:
Turntable: VPI Scoutmaster with Trans-Fi Terminator Air Bearing Linear Tracing Tonearm
Cartridge: Audio-Technica AT33PTG
Phono Preamp: Pro-Ject TubeBox
Soundcard: E-MU 1212
All rips are recorded in full 192khz resolution and then resampled to 44/24 for manual click repair.
They are then dithered to standard redbook 16bit/44khz
I use IzotopeRXAdvanced for all resampling/dithering

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Angel Dust is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Faith No More. It was first released through Slash Records on June 8, 1992 in Europe and the United States. It is the follow-up to 1989's highly successful The Real Thing, as well as the final studio album with Jim Martin and the second to feature Mike Patton on vocals. It was the first album in which Patton had an influence on the band's sound, as Patton had not had input on the musical complexion of The Real Thing.

It remains Faith No More's best-selling album outside the United States (where, as of November 2010, it has sold 678,000 copies). The album and subsequent tour were very successful in Europe where it went Platinum on sales of more than one million copies and Gold in Australia with more than 35,000 sales. Worldwide sales are around 3 million copies.

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There was never anything remotely conventional when it came to Faith No More. The group crossed musical boundries at their will, combining heavy metal, hard rock, alternative and funk, as evident throughout Angel Dust. The 1992 release, issued three long years subsequent to the circuit overloading The Real Thing, finds the out-there group working it's magic once more.

Produced by Matt Wallace in conjuction with FNM, Angel Dust ties together thirteen diverse tracks, with "Midlife Crisis" and the pop sounding "A Small Victory" leading the way. The quintet meld styles, creating an all-their-own sound, while shading the effort with out-of-the-box lyrics.

The collection of unique arrangements opens with the mid-paced "Land of Sunshine", while adding the chaotic "Caffeine", the laid back "RV", the hard hitting "Malpractice", the cheerleading call to oral axxxtion "Be Aggressive", and the twisted "Jizzlobber". The unique set of tracks is brought to a smokey, late night close with a four-minute instrumental cover of "Midnight Cowboy".

Mike Patton's all-over-the-board vocal delivery augments the tracks, while the boys lock-in with slap bass, keyboards, robust drum work, and Jim Martin's guitar riffs and leads.

Keep the faith...

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Mike Bordin – drums
Roddy Bottum – keyboards
Billy Gould – bass
Jim Martin – guitars
Mike Patton – vocals, melodica (on "Midnight Cowboy") Production

Matt Wallace – producer, engineer, mixing
David Bryson – co-mixing
Adam Munoz, Craig Doubet, Gibbs Chapman, Lindsay Valentine, Nikki Tafrallin – assistant engineering
John Golden – mastering
Kim Champagne – artwork direction
Ross Halfin – band photo
Wernher Krutein – bird photo, Red Square photo adaptation
Mark Burnstein – meat photo