Tool's new album comes out today. I have a pretty limited scope of fanfare for musicians out there today, so my taste tends to instill in me a big time loyalty to any artist (be it musician, author, actor, director, artist, hot nude chick, and so on...) that would require a suckiness output of a considerable size to get me to part ways with them. You better watch out, Peter Jackson! The Return of the King was just tolerable and your bastardization of King Kong really, really fucking pissed me off, Chubba! King Kong shouldn't be a pouting fucking pansy, you New Zealand blight! Uh... anyway, where was I? Oh, yes. Tool's new album. Now, every new album Tool has released has been difficult for me to get through at first. This, I always thought originally, was my fault. But, upon further consideration, I think it was almost equally the band's fault, too. Let's face it, Tool isn't churning out songs to suck up to the pop chart's swollen tit; that's part of their charm.Still, some of the songs can require an attention span and focus almost non-existent in modern society. It took me a year to finally tolerate "Lateralus", and possibly another year to fucking like it. Now, it's my favorite album by those guys. Funny, huh? Well, this kind of alarms me. I've heard the new tracks on "10,000 Days" are averaging seven minutes in length! Holy crap! Also, sporting only eleven tracks in all, two, reportedly, are atmospheric. Atmospheric! For seven minutes! Golly gee... Well, like I mentioned earlier, I am a loyal dog, and if I'm willing to invest twenty-four months in appreciating a classic like "Lateralus", then fuck it. So, I think Tower is open now... away I go.
