It's good wtf

It's good wtf

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Nice try Maynerd

it's a grower

rape any kids today?

Eh, it's alright at best. Compared to the rest of their discography (even their first EP), there's really nothing to write home about with this one desu.

Light 2

Don't worry about that. It'll pass

Don't jump on the bandwagon, it's much much better than Opiate

Listening to it the first time right now.
It's breddy gudd so far

No? It's a strong 4

It's better than 10,000 Days sure, but Opiate is 6 solid songs.

dilate

I like it too. It's okay to disagree with the masses and critics.

the critics gave it good reviews, outside of the mu bubble of fantano. but a lot of people don't like it. it's one of those albums.

Each track is like a hologram. You can listen to 10 seconds of it, and you immediately know how the whole thing goes and are sick of it.

>the critics gave it good reviews

Yeah that's true. Though pitchfork will most likely shit on it. At the end of the day, I'm not surprised that it's a controversial album. But I definitely enjoy listening to it.

now excuse me i'm gonna put on some Sunn

If they made a track with chorusy tool guitar tone and some tablas, it would have the same effect as this album.

—and that's good thing

In light of the fractal album artwork and overall theme of "descending," it seems possible that they unwittingly yet methodically tapped into a transcendent principle of sacred geometry to create music that's fundamentally boring in a way we can't even comprehend.

Fantano gave it a relatively low score but somehow didn't address the objective flaws like clipping(!!) and sub-optimal mixing.

it is meh

Will you people give the whole clipping thing a rest? Is this some meme that I'm not in on???

You are listening on your phone where everything clips anyway, or you are not listening on headphones at 0dBFS to notice it. The clipping is one of the few objective truths to state about the album.

I was slightly disappointed at first and then I realized that I felt the same way after listening to 10k and that it's likely just that my expectations were too high. After a few listens I'm really digging it. The lyrics are interesting and sad, mostly about growing old and fearing death which are things that, as a 38 year old boomer, I am starting to feel the pressure from. I appreciate that they're not still trying to be psychedelic edgelords at age ~50. The lyrics are a purposeful rejection of the aging rock star cliche, the millionaire with 3 houses who gets on stage and tries to pretend he's still the edgy 20 year old version of himself (looking at you metallica). It's really perfect in that way. When I was an angry kid they made an angry album (Undertow), when I was a dark edgy teen they made a dark edgy album (Aenema), when I was a drugged out psychedelic mess they made a psychedelic album (Lateralus), and now I'm 38 and growing a slight beer-belly and they made a song about sucking in your belly.

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Good honest comment without the commonly found vile of either Tool fanbois or haters

That was a very nice review. I'm too young to feel the exact same way that you do about this album. But I think that you have shed some light on how different people in different circumstances can have different reactions. That said, I do enjoy this album quite a lot.

More Sex With The Dead

(From July/Aug 1981 Issue)

Dear WET,

I read with sadness and some surprise your "Sex with the Dead" article in March/April 1981 WET. In 1976, I had access to a morgue and did a piece called Necrophilia.

Perhaps John Duncan would not have had to put himself through the mental agony, had he seen that I had done the piece several years before.

The necrophilia piece came to me after having a dream that I was fucking a seductive and beautiful living woman who rapidly aged and died as we were making love. She clamped her arms around me and the sides of the bed became a coffin enclosure.

The dream was terrifying but I saw the Necrophilia piece as the ultimate resolution of polarities - Life/Death - if you could love death you could accept and love life more fully.

After doing the morgue pieces I felt less afraid of death, but more afraid of the moral and karmic consequences of my actions. I was heavy into LSD at the time and had a few revelations about our immortality. In 1979 I hallucinated a trial of the souls who were involved. I met the soul of the woman that I had sex with. She was extremely angry and screamed at me saying - didn't I know I was violating her and that she was a person just as I was. I was so sorry, disgraced and disgusted with myself, I cried and begged her forgiveness. She did not forgive me, but I was put on a kind of probation by the judge and told to do good works, not harmful and negative works. A day has not gone by that I haven't thought of the necrophilia piece. I guess, during the past couple of years, I have come to regard the body as a sacred thing as well as a piece of meat.

Alex Grey
Boston

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Fantano drone

underrated post

lord pls no