Average Rating: 4.00 Rating Variance: 1.00 Objectivity Score: 65% (Fairly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicPuscifer Existential ReckoningThis is a terrible review, by someone who does not like to experience change in an auditory way. Just likes to listen to old tool albums and Pearl Jam and say those were the days. This is a good album. Deal with it loosers.3.0 goodTool Fear InoculumI think the band is playing much better here than in 10000 days. The rythm section is much more focussed and the whole thing is more ambitious than that. Still it doesn't do much better than that album. The problem with this for me is that with a few exceptions, I don't get into the emotional zone. What you do get lots of is a mechanical, very structured bottom end without much, or any free floating etherealness over the top (that Maynard usually provided), kind of needed another guitar or something in many of the songs, or far better, Maynard to have been there more often. And he should have been there in better form than he is here. In some of these tracks he's dropping whale sound, not straying far from the root note, just throwing in a semi tone bend as if that makes it more interesting. With a redo of that, it may have saved it to be a great album- would it have been a classic? I think still some of the arrangements were too instrument focussed and needed to be rearranged to allow Maynard to come back in and finish them. So we have a picture of a band which has improved skill in playing (and they really do- with exception of Maynad), but not one that builds better art overall.
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