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keaton_86
July 25th 2024


1340 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

I listened to this once and vowed never to again.

Sharenge
July 25th 2024


6682 Comments


eat ALL the elephants

Aerialist
July 25th 2024


358 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

FI and this album are two monumental disappointments. Uninspired, tepid instrumentals, zero payoff, and the classic ‘modern’ phoned in Maynard vocals. Zzzz.

keaton_86
July 25th 2024


1340 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

The first 2/3rds of FI are exactly what i wanted. It really shits the bed after that. CCtrip is pointless - The whole album is basically a drum solo. Culling voices first half is great and the second half is embarrassing and then tempest ranges from cringe to boring to cool to boring

bananatossing
September 26th 2024


2657 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Re-listened to this and I insist this is a good album if you re-arrange the songs as such:

1. The Doomed

2. Disillusioned

3. The Contrarian

4. TalkTalk

5. Delicious

6. By And Down The River

7. So Long And Thanks For All The Fish

8. DLB

9. Hourglass

10. Eat The Elephant

11. Feathers

12. Get The Lead Out

GhostShelter
September 26th 2024


1540 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I like this album in general.



I’m gonna try listening to it in that order.

bananatossing
September 26th 2024


2657 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

@GhostShelter Let me know what you think!



Btw, I enjoyed the newest song quite a bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXx8HiTrEUQ&list=OLAK5uy_lb828_DVQNl59SIp7YuZ1x_D1UjaP04BU

Sharenge
November 13th 2025


6682 Comments


try walking your talk or get the fuck out of my way

keaton_86
November 13th 2025


1340 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

I kinda hope that APC or Tool don't make new music because maynards lyrics now are a horrible combination of boomer and early 2000's edgelord and he's letting both teams down.

sizeofanocean
November 14th 2025


3756 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Maynards work general sucks since after the last Tool album. He phoned it in so much on FI it's embarrassing

keaton_86
November 14th 2025


1340 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

Agreed.

DJD1ed
November 14th 2025


199 Comments


I swear every time I try to give a song from this album a chance, I end up cringing and skipping.

Christbait
November 14th 2025


1459 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

I like about 3 songs off of this and the rest is complete crap. I'm also glad folks see how vapid and ineffectual Maynard's lyrics and general perspective as "an artist" is these days. FI was just a hodge-podge of old TOOL riffs and ideas that they cobbled together into a semi-competent album. Wouldn't surprise me if Maynard just pulled lyrics from a decade old journal of ideas/thoughts rather than generate anything new of substance. Nothing about FI felt fresh.

Sharenge
December 4th 2025


6682 Comments


time to put the silicon obsession down

NO!

keaton_86
December 4th 2025


1340 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

"Wouldn't surprise me if Maynard just pulled lyrics from a decade old journal of ideas/thoughts rather than generate anything new of substance"



Pneuma is the name of a poster they had in the early 2000's so you might be on to something here.



Poster: https://www.toolband.com/forums/daily-poster-post-pneuma-1-by-ramiro-rodriguez?req_type=html&k=4d58aff6

Christbait
December 4th 2025


1459 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

"Chancellor noted that one of many guitar riffs used in the track “7empest” traced back to musical ideas written by Jones back in the mid-1990s."



If Jones is pulling ideas from 20 years ago, I wouldn't put it past Maynard to whip open a journal of Y2K musings he felt were still relevant.

Mongi123
December 5th 2025


22441 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Yeah his lyrics are a far cry from 10000 Days(song) here. Quite a bit of these just boils down to boomer sentiment.

PostmanPat
December 6th 2025


539 Comments


This album is shockingly bad in every possible way.

Sharenge
December 6th 2025


6682 Comments


so hatin' but why?

will have to play it again... didn't jam when it came out, only a recent acquisition for me so still digesting

PostmanPat
December 6th 2025


539 Comments


hatin' fun UwU OwO



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