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The interstitial music found on CD's also presents a challenge to the iTunes model. (One of these, "Lipan Conjuring," is 71 seconds of chants.) Unlike LP's or MP3's, CD's encourage musicians to take their time. In "10,000 Days," the band's first album since the 2001 masterpiece "Lateralus," labyrinthine songs are cushioned by intros and outros and digressions. In the CD age musicians learned to add their own diversions - skits, interludes, collaborations - to keep listeners refreshed on a journey that might last nearly 80 minutes. Remember the compact disc, with its finicky packaging, its bloated running time, its charming vulnerability to scratches?Ĭertainly "10,000 Days" evokes a bygone time when musicians expected listeners to swallow their albums whole (unlike vinyl records, which required constant flipping), and in order (unlike MP3's, which encourage constant flitting). (Read all about it in the book "Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture," edited by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.) Now, listening to Tool's glorious, immersive new album, it's possible to mourn the tragic demise - is there any other kind? - of the CD age.
(That warm, crackling sound! Those 288 square inches of blank canvas!) And a generation that came of age in the 1980's has found ways to mourn the demise of the lowly cassette. We have grown used to hearing musicians and listeners pine for the glory days of the vinyl LP.
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This is the kind of CD that makes a $9.99 download seem like a rip-off. Along with those 77 minutes of music, you get a wraparound hardcover case the booklet is printed stereoscopically, with lenses built into the cover. So "10,000 Days" (Volcano/Zomba/Sony BMG) is purely a CD, though it's a pretty elaborate one. (Others include Kid Rock, Linkin Park and Radiohead.) And while other bands are teaching fans the joys of legal downloading, Tool is one of the few current big-name acts that refuse to sell through iTunes. 2 on Billboard's modern rock chart, but it isn't the kind of song that might cross over to pop radio. Tool's current single, a six-minute marvel called "Vicarious," reached No. If it takes 11 minutes for a Tool song to reach its writhing, crashing climax - well, that's how long it takes.
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No doubt none of them were surprised to discover that "10,000 Days" is full of grand, heavy, slightly mysterious progressive rock. After the early 1990's, when MTV seemed to be playing the band's eerie videos nonstop, Tool started shedding casual listeners while retaining - even attracting - serious ones. That was easily enough to put the album on top of the Billboard chart, and it's about twice the sales figure for the new self-titled CD from Pearl Jam, which was released on the same day.Įven so, many nonfans probably had no idea that Tool even had a new album in the shops.
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We don't have a record deal anymore - we're free agents - so we can kind of release whatever we wanna release now, which is a good feeling.Last week "10,000 Days," the new album by Tool, sold about 564,000 copies. "We've never really done that since our first release - done an EP - so I thought it would be kind of nice to do something like that. We kept hoping that we were gonna get back out, so we were just kind of, 'Hey, enjoy this while it lasts,' but now it's looking like it could go to the rest of the year, so we need to get the lead out and start functioning - maybe knock out another EP, at least, or something like that. The band's 2019 album Fear Inoculum achieved the gold status by the RIAA for sales over 500,000 copies last year.Īs for new Tool, last we heard from drummer Danny Carey, the band was going to maybe try and knock out an EP over the pandemic. The triple-platinum status is awarded to records selling over 3 million copies, while the double-platinum status is for (you guessed it) sales of over 2 million copies.
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