Peeping Tom were an American electronic rock group led by Mike Patton. To date, they have released one eponymous album and two singles on Ipecac Recordings. The band has featured a wide variety of well-known artists such as Amon Tobin, Massive Attack, Norah Jones and Kool Keith.
Work began on Peeping Tom in 2000, but the album was delayed six years due to Patton’s recording or touring work with Fantômas, Tomahawk, Lovage, General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners, Kaada/Patton. Additionally, around this time, he collaborated with Björk on her album medúlla, received “a guest spot on a Massive Attack record,” scored two feature films, acted in Firecracker and did video game voice work in The Darkness. Finally, in 2006, the self-titled debut album, Peeping Tom was released through Patton’s own label, Ipecac Recordings.
The entire album was written by Patton with a wishlist of collaborators he had in mind and hoped would contribute to the finished tracks. The album featured performances by artists such as Norah Jones (“Sucker”), Kool Keith (“Getaway”) and Massive Attack (“Kill the DJ”), although almost none of the featured artists recorded their parts with Patton there. “Instead of swapping spit and underwear, we were swapping files,” Patton explained. He said that “plenty of people on the record are still complete strangers to [him].”
Everyday it’s a dream,
it’s obscene.
I wish I was there.
Far Away,
having fun, beneath the sun, my feet in the sand.
But here I am,
freezing cold, shovling snow,
but why should you care?
I wish I was there.
I wish I was there.
It always begins and never ends.
Winter breeze, antifreeze, screaming please,
I wish I was there.
Coacoa, chilled by snow.
All alone.
?????
But here I am.
Sweat and heat at the beach,
and your not my friend.
I wish I was there.
I wish I was there.
It always begins and never ends.
I wish I was there.
I wish I was there.
It always begins and never ends.
It always begins and never ends
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