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When Tool sounds as good as it does on ["Jambi" and "The Pot"] it's hard to get enough. Which makes it all the more baffling that a surprisingly large chunk of the disc is given over to mood-enhancing soundscapes like "Lost Keys" and "Vigniti Tres."
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Nothing here to best the hungry creativity of Aenema's "Eulogy" or Lateralus' "The Grudge," which is particularly frustrating given that drummer Danny Carey dazzles again.
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The entire record is a disquieting trip.
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BlenderIt presumably adds up to Something Important, but good luck deciphering what. [Jul 2006, p.103]
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Neither funny nor thought-provoking, the band strains for touchstones beyond the technicality of prog-metal and rarely achieves them.
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10,000 Days sounds messy and poorly paced.
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Rather than delving further into experimentation or exploring their strengths, Tool have made an...A Perfect Circle record.
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Stupendously packaged, the music robustly mixed and often achieving new levels of bleak beauty, 10,000 Days is too strong a work to call a disappointment, but the constant need to fill out a CD to 75-80 minutes is threatening to become the band’s undoing.
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I, myself, will likely revisit 10,000 Days for plenty of extended listens, partly because I'm a percussion whore and partly because I want to be able to enjoy it with my Super Metal Friendz. But this is Soy Tool, a rubbery substitute for the real thing.
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UncutAs daunting as its title suggests. [Jul 2006, p.114]
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MattOMay 1, 2008
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MikePApr 21, 2008Your comments are meaningless ..beware the new world order.
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RichardGOct 21, 2006I find it laughable that people clamour to tool, like a flock of mindless sheep.