20 Days

This is how long it took me to appreciate the new Tool album. I had already heard Vicarious previously and had a slight love hate relationship with it - but it wasn’t until the day after my birthday that I sat (curled, lay, lounged) on my bed and gave 10,000 Days a good listen. At the time though I was mostly disappointed. My heart did pound through songs like Jambi and The Pot, I can’t help it, I’m a sucker for palm-muted heavy guitars, but overall the experience was a huge lump of “eh”.

18 Days later and yes, I think I’m starting to open up to the sucker. Notably The Pot. It feels like the album was released so long ago but it’s still so young. I try and listen to it outside of the context of Lateralus, which mostly is okay, but it’s still one of the most dominating thoughts that floats into my mind when listening to the album.

I’m sure it’s just the drummer in me, but I have to admit that one of the reasons I’m starting to enjoy the album is largely due to me slowly starting to understand (barely) the rhythms and time signatures through out the album. When I can start to tap the drums out with my hands I start to feel, I don’t know, a connection. Something to do with when my brain stops having to think about the song and the rhythm and can start to just enjoy it.

Posted by Christian Posted in: Music No Comments » 19 May 2006