Album Rating: 2.5
@Titan: do you mean a objective reason? anyway, check out the review by Aidan McIntosh. There is no better to way to put it, if you want to understand why people think it is not excellent imo
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Album Rating: 5.0
Lateralus (5)
Fear Inoculum (5)
10k Days (5)
Aenema (4.9)
Undertow (4.6)
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Album Rating: 4.5
Lateralus (4.5)
Ænima (4.4)
Fear Inoculum (4.3)
10,000 Days (4.2)
Undertow (4.0)
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Album Rating: 4.5
Bump.
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Album Rating: 2.5
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Album Rating: 5.0
I'm like Groundking on my ranking. Cheers.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Lateralus (5)
Fear Inoculum (5)
Aenima (5)
10k Days (4.5)
Undertow (4.5)
Opiate (4)
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Album Rating: 5.0
Good album.
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Album Rating: 2.5
Just finished listening to Lateralus. Pretty neat stuff. Can't decide between 4 oder 4.5...I think I cannot listen long enough to one album to fully enjoy it which was a huge downside of Fear Inoculum
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Album Rating: 4.0
So I see Disposition and Reflection as the biggest precursors to FI. Unlike most of the other songs on Lateralus, neither aims to be ultimately an adrenaline pumping rock song. Reflection works through its mystical and hypnotic quality. Disposition works through its tenderness (perhaps Tool's first genuine ballad). FI basically takes all that those hypnotic, mystical, tender qualities and re-employs Tool's rock sounds in service of them.
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Album Rating: 4.0
How you view that final stretch on Lateralus is plausibly a good predictor of whether you'll like FI. (Note, I say predictor, not guarantor. No doubt there are some people who love that back stretch that don't like FI).
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Yeah I see FI as a reinterpretation of those tracks and the similarities are very on the nose for me. It's a tiny bit uncomfortable how similar they are. Plus the bongo/percussion parts of many 10k tracks were also heavily used for FI.
I enjoy it, but to me it sounds like these were written during the gap between Lateralus and 10,000 Days, not over the course of 13 (!) years.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Funnily enough, despite what I said above I don't think that FI *directly* sounds much like Disposition or Reflection. I more lean toward thinking FI offers reinterpretations of Schism, The Patient, Jambi... They are reinterpreted with the *ethos* of Disposition/Reflection. But still, yes, the recycling bothers me to an extent also. It's just outweighed by how much I enjoy the reinterpretations.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Nightbringer explained it perfectly Trif. He knows it. The band took a turn in their sound on Lateralus (with previous hints on Aenima's Third Eye). This is a continuation of that esoteric vibe...I surrendered completely since Lateralus to their sound I admit. Still the band haven t lost its identity since the day 1...
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Album Rating: 4.0
"He knows it".
Damn straight ;]
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Yeah I get that people see it that way. I personally don't experience it like that, but that's just the difference between listeners I guess.
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Album Rating: 5.0
This chill out mode is the perfect comeback, in their life stage. This album hits me like Tool in a dream mode.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Exactly DDD!
Long live the circle jerk!
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Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off
'Unlike most of the other songs on Lateralus, neither aims to be ultimately an adrenaline pumping rock song. Reflection works through its mystical and hypnotic quality. Disposition works through its tenderness (perhaps Tool's first genuine ballad).'
DDD - I found those two songs on Lateralus to be deathly dull and already sounded existing ideas recycled in a lifeless new-age'y joss stick mystical way - for sure the new album sounds like what I find to be the most boring work on Lateralus (and the sound that heralded me drifting away from the band to some degree) reimagined so I def agree with nightbringer.
It isn't to my taste and it is incredibly reminiscent of their previous work.
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Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off
Anyway this is an ok album
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