I wonder if Keenan and his bodies will ever again find the resources to put together another Tool album? When back in ’95 Keenan describes Puscifer as a series of musical ideas he did not have an opportunity to explore with Tool or A Perfect Circle, but “Telling Ghosts”, “Toma” and few other moments, for instance, might quite fit onto a Tool album. Although “Conditions Of My Parole”, is a quite colorful trip between Tool, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer and a few other influences from Radiohead to The Smashing Pumpkins, juggling between trip hop and industrial metal, defines genres, merging sounds and delivering – once again – something quite different and unique.
This time Keenan and his long list of contributors including Mat Mitchell, Tim Alexander, Jonny Polonski, Danny Lohner, Josh Eustis, Gil & Rani Sharone, Jeff Freidl, Matt McJunkins, Lustmord, Laura Milligan, Carina Round, Jackie Harris, Paul Greenberg, Micah Player, Juliette Commagere, Mike King, Ainjel Emme, Meats Meier, Evil Joe Baressi, Trey Gunn, Milla Jovovich, Lisa Germano, Tim Cadiente, Ford Englerth, Jeffrey Brooks, Micah, Eddie McClintock, Joe Nagy, Satan’s Muse, and more, delivered a quite dark and tensioned album.
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With few exceptions like the title track which bringing back some friendlier vibes of southern rock and country with post grunge resonances. But Keenan said that “life is too short NOT to create something with every breath we draw” and Puscifer remains a hard to label project where in one moment we might listen to some heavy riffs and in the very next one we can slipping down on some spacy, cinematic soundscape. And this is quite alright, Keenan managed to keep all those different sounds and genres together, give them some mysterious common sense.
This is a lovely little monster.
Tracklist:
01 – Tiny Monsters
02 – Green Valley
03 – Monsoons
04 – Telling Ghosts
05 – Horizons
06 – Man Overboard
07 – Toma
08 – The Rapture (Fear Is A Mind Killa Mix)
09 – Conditions Of My Parole
10 – The Weaver
11 – Oceans
12 – Tumbleweed
