Every track may well feature a ‘guest’ performer, but Peeping Tom is very much about Mike Patton’s pop vision. For all the talk about this being his most accessible effort, it certainly ranks alongside his contribution to the Nathanial Merriweather project in terms of sheer hooks.

Like that release, Dan the Automator produces two of the best numbers – single “Mojo” (featuring Rahzel on beat box) and likely next single “Sucker”, on which jazz-popster Norah Jones appears. On the former Patton echoes Britney Spears with “Oops I Did It Again” being the last line, while Amon Tobin messes with strings on “Don’t Even Trip” to brilliant effect, while the line “I know that arseholes grow on trees but I’m here to trim the leaves” is simply hilarious.

The best numbers are those where the producers take the guest spot – Massive Attack on “Kill the DJ”, Kid Koala on “Celebrity Death Match” – rather than the likes of Kool Keith appearing on “Getaway”, which is less successful. Definitely the most surprising moment on Peeping Tom is the lounge-y “Caipirinha”, featuring Bebel Gilberto.

The thing that most strikes about Peeping Tom is what a deliberately confounding listen it is – Patton has always likes to screw with expectations, from Mr. Bungle to Faith no More and all guest points in between, but with Peeping Tom he’s clearly messing with the pop idiom more than he’s ever done before in the past. Just think of it this way: if Peeping Tom was an animated character this album would be just as lauded as Gorillaz.