It takes no time at all to pick out the vocal stylings of TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe, Subtle's Adam "Doseone" Drucker, or Mike Patton of Peeping Tom/Faith No
More/Tomahawk/I Am
Legend/etc.
Each is possessed with an inimitable set of pipes and a willingness to mix subtlety (no pun
intended) and balls-to-the-wall fury when the occasion calls for it.
One can only imagine what kind of howls and growls await us on a new project the three are
working up, which Adebimpe mentioned in an interview with
the Onion's AV Club. The TVOTR frontman told the paper that he, Drucker,
and Patton are "working on a project that I'm thinking will congeal toward the end of the year.
It came from an idea that Adam had, to have the three of us just, basically, mess around vocally
and see what comes of it."
No other info about the project is available right now, though it has been confirmed as being in
the works. I hope, at the very least, it involves a cover of "Don't Worry Be Happy".
The AV Club reminds us that fans waiting to hear the three spit together could play a little six
degrees of salivation at home if they so chose: Tunde shows up on
Subtle's Yell & Ice, and Doseone showed up on Peeping Tom's self-titled
affair back in 2006. Still, the prospect of the three coming together on record is
like one of those Yngwie Malmsteen/Steve Vai/Joe Satriani superjams, minus the old man smell.
In other news from this bunch, TVOTR's amazing Dear
Science is out now, and their full fall
tour kicks off shortly. Subtle hit the road in
November with a new remix record under their many arms. And Mike Patton is co-curating
that Nightmare Before Christmas ATP with the Melvins.
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