Tool – Lateralus (2003)

February 26, 2020

In my younger days I always had a large respect for what Tool was doing, but in the constant lust for what was fast more brutal, or even more offensive, albums like Lateralus fell to the wayside for me. Thankfully, now in my wizened old age I can return to such records and see the beauty in them. Lateralus is like watching the mechanism of a very expensive Swiss watch in slow motion; all the layers come together beautifully, and the intricacy forms something greater than the sum of its parts. A simpler whole, if you’d allow me to say so.