Descending Invincible
May 6, 2019 9:33 PM Subscribe
The audio isn't as good as one might hope, and Maynard's vocals are sort of lost in the mix, but on Sunday night, Tool debuted two new songs. A new album (their first in 13 years) is at the mixing phase, and might be out in just a few months. Excite isn't strong enough a word.
Separate links for the songs Descending and Invincible.
Separate links for the songs Descending and Invincible.
Whelp, I am excited. I finally saw them live a couple years ago. Most concerts I go to I’m pretty done after an hour, but for Tool I was still dancing past the encores. Even through the drummer’s noodly electronic bits.
posted by migurski at 10:31 PM on May 6, 2019
posted by migurski at 10:31 PM on May 6, 2019
Tool live can be either really boring or really transcendent. It depends on the buy-in by the audience member.
I've totally bought in every time I've seen them. That has not always been the case with people who've accompanied me to the shows.
posted by hippybear at 10:34 PM on May 6, 2019
I've totally bought in every time I've seen them. That has not always been the case with people who've accompanied me to the shows.
posted by hippybear at 10:34 PM on May 6, 2019
Heh... they're actually one of my least favorite bands of all time. However, my brother really likes them, and I'm not sure he has any idea that this album is coming out. There's a chance I might be able to buy it and surprise him with it.
I mean, if I just found out that a brand new REM album was coming out, I would be pretty excited.
^__^
posted by Chronorin at 4:43 AM on May 7, 2019
I mean, if I just found out that a brand new REM album was coming out, I would be pretty excited.
^__^
posted by Chronorin at 4:43 AM on May 7, 2019
You're gonna get NIN's Bad Witch
yes, the nine inch nails album with acid beats, bowie-aping vocals and saxophone is really typical for them, totally exactly like what they've done before and not new in any way whatsoever.
posted by JimBennett at 10:37 AM on May 7, 2019 [1 favorite]
yes, the nine inch nails album with acid beats, bowie-aping vocals and saxophone is really typical for them, totally exactly like what they've done before and not new in any way whatsoever.
posted by JimBennett at 10:37 AM on May 7, 2019 [1 favorite]
I'm still not over King Crimson having to open for them
posted by thelonius at 12:05 PM on May 7, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by thelonius at 12:05 PM on May 7, 2019 [3 favorites]
JimBennet, yes. I was saying this is a shitty comeback album. I even tried to leave Fragile in the second group as a good comeback album, tho that's an album that should be half its length but seems longer than anything ever when listened to at once. At least there were high-points.
It is terrible to hear about Keenan's alleged rape, but not surprising. I love early Tool and I love Bill Hicks, but it all feels like a sewer and has stayed a sewer, despite delusions of transcendence.
posted by es_de_bah at 4:41 PM on May 7, 2019
It is terrible to hear about Keenan's alleged rape, but not surprising. I love early Tool and I love Bill Hicks, but it all feels like a sewer and has stayed a sewer, despite delusions of transcendence.
posted by es_de_bah at 4:41 PM on May 7, 2019
Honestly, TOOL's songs (especially their hits, but really a vast swath of them) have been in some way about rape. Sometimes from one side or the other, often in a gray area, sometimes sympathetically dealt with, sometimes detached, yet always explicit in some way. This was a bit common for 90s nu-metal bands, but MK's fixation and his ping-ponging between sensitivity and prurient humor always gave the sense that he had personally experienced sexual assault and talked to others from the same situation. I think its no stretch to say that he's a survivor. As is unfortunately often the case, he may also be an abuser. And as is ALWAYS a worst-case scenario, he may be a perpetrator of sexual violence propped up by a power structure with one or more people facilitating. That's certainly the situation described by that tweet story. I really hope this story gets better.
posted by es_de_bah at 4:57 PM on May 7, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by es_de_bah at 4:57 PM on May 7, 2019 [1 favorite]
JimBennet, yes. I was saying this is a shitty comeback album. I even tried to leave Fragile in the second group as a good comeback album, tho that's an album that should be half its length but seems longer than anything ever when listened to at once. At least there were high-points.
regardless of the QUALITY (you're wrong and bad witch is good), you lumped it in with several examples of washed up bands trying to recapture an old formula, and i was pointing out several examples of how that particular record was actually doing some new stuff. trent is constantly trying to keep it fresh so it seems silly to bring him into this. it's also not a comeback album, it was their fourth studio release in five years. even the fragile isn't really a "comeback album," i guess maybe it felt that way at the time but plenty of bands take five years between records (also i wouldn't cut anything from that record (okay, maybe starfuckers), it's basically perfect).
i'm not really even a tool fan but you know, when someone posts about music they're excited about, you really don't have to jump in and shit all over everything? you can just keep it to yourself.
posted by JimBennett at 7:13 PM on May 7, 2019 [2 favorites]
regardless of the QUALITY (you're wrong and bad witch is good), you lumped it in with several examples of washed up bands trying to recapture an old formula, and i was pointing out several examples of how that particular record was actually doing some new stuff. trent is constantly trying to keep it fresh so it seems silly to bring him into this. it's also not a comeback album, it was their fourth studio release in five years. even the fragile isn't really a "comeback album," i guess maybe it felt that way at the time but plenty of bands take five years between records (also i wouldn't cut anything from that record (okay, maybe starfuckers), it's basically perfect).
i'm not really even a tool fan but you know, when someone posts about music they're excited about, you really don't have to jump in and shit all over everything? you can just keep it to yourself.
posted by JimBennett at 7:13 PM on May 7, 2019 [2 favorites]
This reminds me how much I hate people recording live shows on their f*cking phones.
posted by gottabefunky at 10:00 PM on May 7, 2019
posted by gottabefunky at 10:00 PM on May 7, 2019
Yeah, I know. I was at a show with open filming a few years ago and I was trading off camera duties with a concert buddy and I was struck with how utterly removed I was from feeling like I was at the show during each song I had the camera. I've never done more than a single photo of a band since then.
posted by hippybear at 10:36 PM on May 7, 2019
posted by hippybear at 10:36 PM on May 7, 2019
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You're not getting Fugazi's the Arguments. You're not getting NIN's fragile. You're not getting Bonnie Prince sings Greatest Palace. You're not even getting Phish's Story of a Ghost.
Lucky if you get Portishead's Third.
I'm going to go listen to 13th step and think about Failure.
posted by es_de_bah at 9:46 PM on May 6, 2019 [4 favorites]