Album Rating: 3.5
Hard truth hittin
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Album Rating: 3.5
Just realized the version I've had all this time was the original seven track leak and not the full 10 lmao
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Album Rating: 5.0
Ooh jealous
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Album Rating: 4.0
This album is insanely attractive. I recently did something naughty while listening to it. I don't want to talk about it...
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Album Rating: 3.5
I just bought the vinyl. Not the crazy-ass 180 euro one, just the normal one. Excited.
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“Edit: Ah, you know that. Then why did you ask? O_O”
My comment about Bottrill was in addition to the other complaints. It’s far more fundamental than just working with a different engineer; there are multiple extended sections on this album which sound incredibly two dimensional, like they only exist to fill out the track and not because of genuine chemistry between their playing. I’ll go back to the example I gave in the previous post: the chugging section in Invincible doesn’t just outstay its welcome, it then returns straight after what is probably the best section of the track. There is nothing ‘natural’ about the way those segments flow together, it sounds like someone wanted the track to last a bit longer so they just dragged and dropped a previous section.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yeh
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Album Rating: 4.0
Aluktodolo, welcome to the site! We have something in common, an ear for quality production.
Engineering wise, Fear Inoculum is of disgusting mediocrity, it's like the band didn't supervise the producer at all:
- "Do the drums sound fine to you during this passage, Danny?"
- "Umm. Listen, do as you wish bro, who cares, we're off to Hawaii".
Another stupid thing Baressi did was EQing down the 3hz-6hz presence region. Because this region is so much quieter than the rest, not only do the guitars and vocals sound recessed, but the whole album on headphones sounds like barrels falling on your head whenever there's heavier drumming (the clipping is the cherry on top). Imo if Botrill produced this it would easily be Tool's magnum opus.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Worst Tool flat out no contest agreed
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Album Rating: 3.5
"Ooh jealous"
Gotta czech it with the interludes to see if I think of it differently, haven't listened since COVID started tbh
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Album Rating: 5.0
What 3 tracks did you miss on the first?
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@Baseline: I think the easiest way I can describe it is that every single instrument sounds completely isolated and gated to death. It’s like this guy considers harmonics as ‘bleed’. There is zero nuance or atmosphere in this recording. It isn’t just the mixing either; the tones are just flat out not there for me, the drums in particular, which sound so dry and compressed. Forget even Lateralus and Aenima for a second, this album and 10K Days aren’t in the same league recording wise as something like Sound Awake.
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Album Rating: 3.5
I thought it sounded pretty damn snazzy, but i get your criticism - it is extremely clean sounding.
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Album Rating: 3.5
"What 3 tracks did you miss on the first?"
I think they were the interludes. Tool released the album without the interludes on CD and then included them later in the streaming versions. AFAIK, the current vinyl they're pressing for the new editions of it are still missing one of the interludes. I don't get it tbh
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Album Rating: 3.5
The interludes bloat and already very bloated album so its not a huge deal
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Album Rating: 4.5
Maybe I am too much of a fanboy but I enjoy the flattiness of the mix and think it fits to the overall music vibe.
I also for example love the sharp, crisp, thunder double bass roll that you seem to hate. I think it's so cool and precise. not mechanical or AI. I love that rumble lol
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Album Rating: 3.5
I love the mix, but goddam Pneuma hits completely different live. That shit was mental.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Band live is mental
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Album Rating: 5.0
I've never understood the criticism on the production here. Gives the album its amazing atmosphere.
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Album Rating: 3.0
I don't like it much either tbh
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