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IN REVIEW: A Perfect Circle - "Eat the Elephant"

As the world awaits that long, long gestating fifth Tool album, Maynard James Keenan has been waiting too, and filling the time with a myriad of occupations; as a prominent wine maker and mastermind behind Puscifer amongst other interests, Keenan's had plenty to keep him busy when not working on that damned Tool record. Now, even as we've been promised that the wait for that is nearly over, perhaps the most welcome distraction comes in the form of new material from A Perfect Circle, one of Keenan's first so-called side projects. Sometimes lost in the shuffle is the fact that APC have also garnered a pretty devoted fan base and have been away for far too long; Eat the Elephant is their first album of original material in fifteen years and, not counting a couple of one off songs along the way, the first time we heard from them in any real capacity since 2004. Over the course of so much time there is bound to be change, and it comes in the overall tone of Eat the Elephant...