Ænima embraces the awful and the awfully funny. What transpires for the next hour and twenty minutes looks for comparisons where few exist. Drawing from Carl Jung, Freud’s pupil, and Bill Hicks, one of the world’s greatest stand-up comics, both would have been proud of Maynard James Keenan’s lyrical use of psychotrauma and dick jokes. Landlocked rhythms and riffs forged in the mind’s shadows. “Stinkfist,” Tool’s opening descent into an album with cinematic and psychologically crippling themes throughout, provides the invocation with guitarist Adam Jones, drummer Danny Carey, and bassist Justin Chancellor like three continents converging at exactly the same time. The push-and-pull of notes panning in every direction, looped to the delayed abstraction of infinity, sped up to create momentary euphoria in the midst of perpetual disorientation. Happy 25th Anniversary to Tool’s second studio album Ænima, originally released September 17, 1996.įrippertronics introduction.
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