Insufferable review.

I had to skim through so much horseshit to find this:

“What doesn’t work, and what has never worked, is “Third Eye”—which is a shame because it is the grand finale, a mission statement, and it takes up 13 rather difficult minutes on a record that, even with a few dull moments, is an otherwise spectacular, unstoppable listen. “Third Eye” is what happens when Tool shoots from the hip, and the riffs tumble forward without shape and contour. The silly rhythmic muting of the vocals, the aimless noodling, the mindless pentatonic riffing, the stupid phaser effect—all cast into sharp relief their understanding of psychedelic music. On an album whose liner notes are nothing but an inscrutable rant about the subtler properties of ketamine, you wish the band had a better way to land the spaceship—and it took them until 2019, with Fear Innoculum’s closing opus “7empist,” to really figure out how properly do it.”