The whole album can be split in two between those that sound like old school Tool ('Fear Inoculum', 'Culling Voices' and '7empest') and those that don’t. The first truly old school “Tool” song (after the title track 'Fear Inoculum') is 'Culling Voices' a neurotic dialogue between the character Maynard embodies and his own psychopathy. The songwriting is thick with imagery, long solos, sounds created by instruments that no one else really uses, ambiguous lyrics and constantly changing time signatures that will catch you tapping along out of time, even if you have perfect rhythm. Somehow this doesn’t feel like this it’s overkill – a requirement rather than a recommendation to respect the musicality and gravitas of the release.Įach of the seven movements (for that is what they deserve to be called) comes in around nine to 15 minutes long, save for 'Chocolate Chip Trip' with its highly distorted, almost Infected Mushroom-esque sound could almost be accused of being an interlude at a mere four minutes.
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With the release this Friday imminent it led to a clearing of the diary for the night – ordering some damn fine speakers, a vinyl player and a large wingback chair, frantically searching online for a place with the most dramatic fireplace just so one can truly enjoy the full 'Fear Inoculum' experience. The version this writer was invited to listen too was an edited 75-minute version without the various two-three minute segues that act as interludes between the tracks which appears in the full 90-minute version.
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Three songs in I needed popcorn and I’d already written down that my writing wasn’t good enough to describe the album.