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 title: Tool - Lateralus
author: Martin Carlsson

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Transcribers note:

This has been translated from Swedish by me. It´s as close to
word-for-word as I could manage. It´s not a big review, but I thought 
it could be interesting with a review from a country where most 
people, old and young, don´t even know Tool exists. This is the only 
review I´ve found...
/Patrik
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Tool
Lateralus
(Volcano/Zomba)

4 wasps out of 5

If you get deep into a record about twenty times, you´ll 
get a clear image of it.

Normally.

Current norms, however, does not concern Tool, wich without doubt
is the most unlikely million sellers of the music world. They 
haven´t released a tone in five years, but in spite of the 
business´ changeable ways, the expectations are extremly 
high - on an album without anything that even reminds of a 
chorus/reffrain.

"Lateralus" is hard to penetrate, on the limit to untouchable.
This Autumn, Tool will tour with King Crimson, and it is from
that kind of progressive 70s rock their music has evolved from.

This third work is, if possible, even more complex than their
earlier (CDs). I´m not saying i can take it all in, but I like it 
a lot. Not the least because Tool energetically show that it,
after all, is possible to succeed on their own terms. There
is actually an alternative to Limp Bizkit´s stupifying stream
of curses.

Posted to t.d.n: 05/20/01 20:06:21