PEEPING TOM album was released 12 years ago!

Mike Patton's Peeping Tom album was released on May 30th 2006, through Ipecac Recordings. The album was orignally recorded as demos in 2000 with Patton performing all the parts, but finally produced professionally 'through the mail' with various hip hop and pop collaborators.

Guests on the album included Dan Rahzel, Doseone, Dan The Automator, Norah Jones, Kool Keith and Massive Attack, amongst others.

"I don't listen to the radio, but if I did, this is what I'd want it to sound like. This is my version of pop music. In way, this is an exercise for me: taking all these things I've learned over the years and putting them into a pop format." - Patton 2006

The song Mojo was released as the first single and the video directed by Matt McDermitt features appearances by Danny Devito, Mark Hoppus (blink 182), Rachel Hunter, Dan the Automator and Rahzel.

"In a way, this is an exercise for me: taking all these things I've learned over the years and putting them into a pop format. I've worked with many people who have said to me, 'Oh you have a pop record in you, eventually you'll find it,' and I always laughed at them. I guess I owe them an apology." - Patton 2006

"If there's one thing I learned from Peeping Tom, it's that working with so many collaborators takes a hell of a long time. It was challenging to be a whip-cracker and a composer and be sympathetic at the same time. I didn't even meet a lot of these people until years later. Doing everything via email or an FTP site is certainly a more impersonal way of making music, but in other ways it can be more direct because you're getting unfiltered ideas. If I do another one, I'd change some things. But it was definitely a worthwhile experience." - Patton 2013

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