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honestly i thought it was kind of boring. there were some interesting moments where Adam is playing with a cleaner tone and coming up with some interesting riffs and even a few bits where you can hear Maynard without all the harmonizers and effects and he almost sounds a bit vulnerable. like the first part of "Invincible" i thought was kind of interesting and actually somewhat new for them but those moments are really brief and most of the album sounds like very "paint by numbers" generic tool riffs that are just dragged out as long as possible Fried Watermelon posted:It's VERY GOOD if you only ever listen to Tool though and for some hosed up reason never listened to any other bands in the past decade i think mainly the album sounds like the band members themselves havent listened to anything but their last two records for the past decade. there's no sign of any kind of newer influences or directions or experiments or anything, its well executed for what it is i guess but it also makes it seem like they havent grown musically during those 13 years at all, its just a rehash Earwicker fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Sep 1, 2019 |
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i thought the weirdest part of the album was the song "baby wants some milk (because he's so thirsty)" where maynard would start crying like a baby and singing about needing milk from his mommy
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The new album is just more Tool. I figured Maynard would come up with something more interesting considering it took thirteen years but what they gave us is surprisingly back to basics. But I wouldn’t necessarily say that’s a bad thing.
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Earwicker posted:honestly i thought it was kind of boring. there were some interesting moments where Adam is playing with a cleaner tone and coming up with some interesting riffs and even a few bits where you can hear Maynard without all the harmonizers and effects and he almost sounds a bit vulnerable. like the first part of "Invincible" i thought was kind of interesting and actually somewhat new for them this is similar to my initial read. i kept not finishing songs and picking up later. little playgrounds for adam jones and daniel carey to shred. a little more about ecstatic lysergic jamming. adam in particular is doing a lot more guitar heroics on stuff like 7empest(the obvious highlight). just a lot of soloing for tool songs. nothing here feels "hooky" which i miss maynard feels phoned in and the effv0x sometimes feel like an attempt to mask. the lyrics are generally pretty important to my emotional connection to this band and i find very little to take seriously and engage with. pretty bad. like poo poo id write in high school. a couple good lines here and there. chocolate trip song sounds like something you'd do at a drum clinic. pretty fun if you like drums. the drumming in general is pretty fuckin sticky. as usual no one can touch this dude, i'm still trying to drum like him 19 years later. im less into the electronic tabla stuff but whatever. go off. id disagree more on the "rehash from musicians who havent grown" thing. adam is given a lot more freedom on here and i think he revealed more of his palette. there do seem to be echoes of like, Jambi and Vicarious. some definite 10,000 days guitar tone pops up. the vocals are for better or worse pretty different, which makes sense for a dude getting old and adapting to what he can perform it had to be a TOOL album for TOOL fans to enjoy after 35 years of waiting, there's a certain framework. i think they found room to play  honestly i like it more than i did before writing this post. i did come into it very skeptical being a big tool fan boy since a long time. one breath, one word, let the Orinoco flow. Brolander fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Sep 1, 2019 |
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i havent listened to the lyrics very closely but the overall vibe/concept i picked up is "old man uses pseudo-intellectual/spiritual babble to try to talk himself out of his fear of death and imminent bodily/mental decay" which makes sense for where he is at in life i guess but expressed in a kind of cheesy way
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Honestly every member of TOOL has multiple other musical projects and they’re all very intelligent and creative people. It seems like they just wanted to make another TOOL album and they did that and it’s beating Taylor Swift’s new album so I guess everybody wins! I don’t think musical acts are required to update their sound and evolve, sometimes just refining the sound and adding some new toys is enough. Like honestly the worst thing this album could’ve done was to NOT sound like TOOL
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Bust Rodd posted:Honestly every member of TOOL has multiple other musical projects and they’re all very intelligent and creative people. It seems like they just wanted to make another TOOL album and they did that and it’s beating Taylor Swift’s new album so I guess everybody wins! Bust Rodd
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Album bad because Tool is bad.
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