alright so this is gonna come off real spacey, but i’m driving from nc to south fla and currently listening to 10,000 days. i have a vague memory from college of this weird kid i knew explaining all the perfections of tools music and other esoteric shit related to the band.. can someone elaborate pls?
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*Lateralus* is the album that’s generally held up as “mathematically perfect,” as the entire structure of the album is built around the Fibonacci sequence, which itself is tied to the Golden Ratio. The album itself is also popularized because it’s essentially “babby’s first progressive metal album” for a lot of millennials.
The supposed perfection isn’t anything to write home about, though. The Golden Ratio has some interesting properties within geometry, but the significance of the number is hilariously overhyped by new-age cultists.
In short; *Lateralus* isn’t good because of the Fibonacci sequence references, it’s good because Tool (particularly in that era) was really good.
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