It’s a return to a familiar formula but also a sprawling redefinition of it.
All the hallmarks of Tool’s last two albums 2001’sLateralusand 2006’s10,000 Days are revisited and reinvented.
The bulging 86-minute run time extends long past the typical duration of a CD.
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The packaging is so baroque that it comes with a four-inch HD screen that plays video.
Black Emperor, and classical composers like John Luther Adams.
It’s Velvet Underground’sWhite Light/White Heatshot through Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun.”
“Calm as cookies and cream, so it seems.”
It’s, well, a lot.
