I have written elsewhere that "Lateralus" represents my Tool album; but the previous "Aenima," released in 1996, also scores top marks. And this excellent outcome is achieved through a lengthy album, never-ending at nearly eighty minutes, which contains such musical grandeur that it leaves me with little doubt about its infinite quality. Energy, precision, odd time signatures, lysergic expansions, hypnotic instrumental ascents, dense, sick... PUSHIT...
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