Sunday, April 30, 2006

Tool - 10,000 Days (2006)

Tool is an American rock band, formed in 1990 in Los Angeles, California when drummer Danny Carey joined the rehearsal of his neighbour, singer Maynard James Keenan, guitarist Adam Jones and bassist Paul d'Amour when nobody else would show up.
Tool's new record, entitled 10,000 Days, was completed on January 29, 2006, mastered on January 31. It has been confirmed that the album is to see release on May 2, 2006 in the US, on May 1 in the UK, on April 29 in Australia and April 28 in Germany.

O'Henry Studios, Burbank, California. To its legion of fans, everything the band Tool does is an event, but the elaborate plan behind their sporadic release schedule--roughly five years, on average, between albums--is due primarily to the time and effort the band packs into each successive effort. To title their fourth album 10,000 DAYS, then, isn't as much an exaggeration as it would seem. Tool are America's most consummate mainstream perfectionists, revitalizing progressive rock to the grandeur of its '70s heyday, but updated with technocratic tension and existential dread not known to previous generations. Perhaps it's the development of more musical genres at the turn of the millennium, but it's also Tool's ability to take what is needed from each and leave the florid excesses behind, forming a seething gray core of angst and release across epic-length songs that are as accessible as they are complex. The material on 10,000 DAYS provides typically thought-provoking grist for the band's lyrical handwringing ("Vicarious" tackles reality television as the bane of culture; "Wings for Marie" is a two-part suite on the death of vocalist Maynard James Keenan's mother), and is as musically engaging as ever, finding the band at their most powerful since 1996's AENIMA.

1 COMMENTS:

Ben on 4:56 pm said...

Tracks
01.- Vicarious (7:00)
02.- Jambi (7:30)
03.- Wings For Marie (Wings Pt 1) (6:13)
04.- 10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2) (11:15)
05.- The Pot (6.24)
06.- Lipan Conjuring (1:13)
07.- Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann) (3:47)
08.- Rosetta Stoned (11:13)
09.- Intension (7:23)
10.- Right In Two (8:57)
11.- Viginti Tres (5:02)

Released: May 2, 2006
Recorded: 2004-2006
Genre: Heavy, Progressive rock
Length: 76:11
Label: Volcano II/Tool Dissectional: US

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