I think I am on my sixth listen as I played it on the big system late this morning. It is definitely a keeper, and I find it to be recorded quitter well. I have the 24/96 digital version from HD Tracks. It doesn't seem compressed to me. Even my wife said today how good it sounds. Maybe I got lucky with the download, I dunno?
Refined, matured, perfectly timed chords, progressive, catchy, hypnotic, heavy when it needs to be, good ol fashion Tool. I think it's their best album.
@mrdecibel when we were younger, the raw energy of Undertow drew us all in. Nothing like that sound had really been done before so it was new to all of us.
That said, I think it would be pretty hard to deny how much the band has matured and evolved and progressed through the years and specifically to this new album. It's just on a different level of artistry than Undertow.
Like I said, undertow rocks. No question about it. But what they created on this album is a masterpiece. The same cannot be said of Undertow from an artistic sense.
i respect tool, but the new record was underwhelming--they meander instead of rock and the drummer overplays to the point of parody--he makes keith moon sound comatose by comparison.
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