These songs run at very slow, almost doomlike paces. Version) across only 7 tracks, which means almost every song is over 10 minutes. For the most part, I canįear Inoculum is not the easiest experience to dive into it runs at 80 minutes (86 if you're talking about the digital Giving kudos to the band for not missing a beat and swinging back stronger than ever. Most of the public seems onboard for it too, Stumbling over each other giving the album (mostly) rapturous praise. Fear Inoculum is out, and critics are already I get the feeling many of us thought it would go the way of Half-Life 3Īnd become the musical version of vaporware, and the constant rumor mill from the band and media wasn'tĬonvincing people otherwise. On the same page and get the record done. Was spent waiting for it, getting to the point where several memes online mocked the band for their inability to stay Tool's fifth studio album is one of those projects that I don't think most people had much faith in. ![]() ![]() Social review comments | Review Posted Friday, Aug| Review this album | Report (Review #2247285) Had come to see you after thirteen years and you'd answered the door, you had for some unknown reason expected someone You'll be disappointed if, when it was announced that Tool For everyone else, I'd hope it's a excellent listen. It might make a good introduction to the band for the uninitiated So who's it for? Anyone who enjoys Tool's music will enjoy this one. I'm not going to touch upon each of the tracks, because these songs seem specifically designed to take each person on his or her own That seems a reasonable thing to expect from Into the tracks, and the cracks within them, get lost a bit, and then come back home. These are all long songs, running into double digits, minute-wise, almost meditative, slowly unfolding and then wrappingĪround themselves and back again, like some new age yogic ouroboros shedding its skin, with mostly satisfying results. Maynard seems a bit more restrained, but he's been slowly headed that way The drumming that is just this side of second to none. Prison Sex or Stinkfist, but you'll get the same riffage and atmospheric guitars (occasionally at the same time), the solid, probing bass, Don't expect any of the gut punches that were In some ways, it's a remarkable album, a sort of compendium of what a Tool album is. Perhaps it doesn't hit with same same punch as the first time I heardĪenima in the mid-90s, but I'm a bit older now, as is the band. And upon listening you will immediately recognize it as such, which is to say this isĪ very good Tool album, as they all, to varying degrees, are. Well all, these days I come around here about as often as a new Tool album.Īnd we do have a new Tool album, Fear Incoculum. Social review comments | Review Posted Sunday, Aug| Review this album | Report (Review #2246271) With when you've already heard their other records. This album is good overall, but this is absolutely not essential in their discography. Psychedelic/math developments of their later career. Namely the half-reflective "Culling Voices" (which nonetheless segues in the second half into that repeated drum-driven pattern of the first four songs), the annoying instrumental jam "Chocolate Chip trip" (that sounds really out of place on this album),Īnd the angry closer, a sort of melting pot mixing the rage of their earlier alternative metal debuts, and the The exceptions to this "Holy Quaternity of Repetition" are the 3 songs that follow them, Instead, you hear over and over Bozzio-esque drumming (circa The Lonely Bears sessions), at leastĭuring the first four songs, the overall impression being that the same song is repeated over and over (the "Holy When you see that the majority of songs is 10 mn+ long, you expect greatĭevelopments. Is nothing, really nothing new under the sun. This album can indeed be considered as "just another ToolĪlbum" in a career spanning already one generation, yet only a poor harvest (a mean of 1 album every 4 years). Thing I hear is that Tool prove us that they are still Tool. ![]() Despite all the excitement surrounding its issue, the only The least we can say is thatĮxpectations were high regarding this long-awaited album. 'Fear Incolum' is the fifth Tool album, it comes 13 years after the previous one.
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