All in all this album is a drawn out progressive earthy drama journey- rustic, yet with technical timing perfection. The final track "7empest" hits upon old school adrenal pineal gland stimulating ultra-futuristic primal punk aggression and is another rythmic favourite on the also gives a big nod of affection to their well-known musical inspiration, the classic progressive rock band King Crimson- especially with the 1980s Robert Fripp & Adrian Belew guitar style intro that Adam Jones dials up and draws in, preparing listeners to hear an all out energetic rhythmic shredding metalesque supernova of a number. The singer and lyricist Maynard James Keenan really hits upon some weird trippy melodies, expressionistic and eerie, especially in tracks like "Pneuma". His use of shredding amplification, revamping and pedal effects treatments are sonically tasty, especially when juxtaposed with direct input recording techniques. It marks a new departure of Baressi and puts him into a whole new league of uber-professional 'out-there' sound engineers. The sound mix is a combo of hardrock conventions and filmic intellectual progressive space rock punk. The recording and mix by Joe Baressi (no doubt having met the band through their mutual Melvins connections) is exquisite.he really comes into his own a perfect mix of high resolution and midlevel graininess with at times obscurely treated vocals that are subjective responses to what is being sung about at the time. There is perhaps only one track in this that i consider filler. The lyrics, which I never delve into, seem to be of a self conscious sociological warning of things, and of course are somewhat about self awareness expansion. It's a little more earthy and scientific and not so much psychedelic like Lateralus. The new tracks, all around 10 minutes+ in length, are consistent yet ually grounded by low level off tempo dirge progressive rhythms that stretch out far and wide. 80 something minutes of music that seems to pick up where 2001's ultra psychedelic prog masterpiece Lateralus left off.
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