JUSTIN CHANCELLOR Explains Why TOOL Releasing Standalone Singles Would Be Difficult

Being in Tool must be annoying generally. Regardless of once they put a brand new file, regardless of who or what the interview is with or about, the subject of latest music will inevitably come up. Tool bassist Justin Chancellor has just lately been within the “new materials when?” crosshairs, answering the query by mentioning the band is creatively moving forward.

Although in a brand new interview with NME, Chancellor revealed why Tool is not serious about merely writing and releasing standalone singles. Chancellor notes that Tool is extra within the overarching image of an EP or an album, and that standalone singles would solely be cool in the event that they ended up forming a full-length file.

“Completely. Taking a look at how issues are launched and consumed by the general public lately, it is extra widespread to launch even only a single. That’d be an attention-grabbing strategy for us as a result of we have at all times waited till we have created an entire physique of labor and made it polished and refined and excellent. So it would be an thrilling concept to go ‘Effectively, each time we end a music, we may simply file that and launch it’. That being stated, the best way that we love to do stuff is to current an entire package deal with the artwork and with a theme to it… so an EP could be a very good compromise between an album and a single. To get a few actually juicy tracks collectively and launch them on a shorter model of an album.

“One other concept is to launch singles separately, then as soon as they’re all as soon as we have amassed to the size of an album we’ll put that collectively in a package deal and launch it as an album. That method you may nonetheless have a bodily vinyl and do all of the art work and all that stuff.

“I nonetheless assume that by writing an entire album, you get actually deep into the vibe of the piece and it turns into one thing additional reaching and makes your work a bit of deeper. However for now, it is fairly versatile, which is thrilling. As quickly as we have one thing able to go, there is a selection of various shops.”

Alternatively, Tool may simply pull a Sleep and write one actually lengthy music as an EP. They bought fairly shut with “7empest” and its practically 16 minute runtime.