USA Today Interview Phoenix

My theory is Phoenix was mis quoted. I bet he was trying to say "Unlike 45 minute albums, this is going to be a long journey". The writer probably asked him a question and heard the number 45 and the word "length" put together and assumed that was the album length. Unless if LP goes all Eminem on us and decides to have skits which won't happen, this was a mis quote. I suppose they did that in Reanimation but that was a remix album which is different.

But we must trust this guy because he stated Phoenix as a drummer! Didn't you hear? Phoenix and Rob switched places! And Brad is our lead singer while chester plays lead guitar.

 

there is probably like a minute or less long intro and an Outro? and some instrumentals maybe that are 1 to 3 minutes, giving the fact that the album doesnt include a full 15 tracks and most are 3-4 minutes im guessing and the catalyst nearly 6 lol its fine, I just really hope the music is wonderful and mindblowing

 

In my own opinion, USA Today isn't a great source for news of ANY kind. But the fact that the album is longer than M2M is a huge plus in my book *thumbsup*

 

Where are you guys getting that that album is longer than 45 mins? I honestly have no idea how long it is, but 45 minutes is about how long an album usually is. Where'd these track times of yours come from?

 

Six track sampler, apparently.

 

I would be utterly disappointed if there are more than 2 instrumentals. I just can't believe there would be an intro, outro AND an extra instrumental.

 

The 6 track sampler review gave track times. They added up to about 27 and a half minutes.

That leaves 17 and a half minutes for 9 other songs, which is less than 2 minutes per track on average. So it just doesn't make sense for it to be 45.

 

1: i lolled at the "drummer" Phoenix. Chester must be the new rapper and Mike dancer. The elephant eventually the lead singer.
2: As much i can see this article is "wrong" (i don't wanna say it lies), i still have my little fear of that 45 minutes... my lungs slided down when i read that because i am seriously awaiting an AT LEAST 55 minutes album, as i said days before on other threads.
3: the 19th or 17th i think of this month i wrote this on the 6-samples thread:One thing i hope tho, is that they didn't choose purposely 6 songs in which lenght is over 4 minutes to hype it even more, as people reacts obviously surprised at it (even if it was anticipated by Mike, when he said "tracks might be less but longer" aside from "we are trying all different NEW schemes"). I hope the other 6 are not ALL 3 minutes.
I hope the band would not "cheat" the fans as you said. It would be not that nice. I expect interludes and one or two instrumentals yes, but still, the album can reach 55 easily with that.
If we have 6 tracks of 27 minutes in total (reading the sum of others), means 9 tracks... well, even if we cut 4 of them, maximum 5, meaning 4 interludes and one instrumental, or 3 interludes and 2 instrumentals, we would have in 5 tracks around 11 or 12 minutes. Cause interludes are easily from 00:25 to 1:30 long.
I wanna believe an eventual instrumental would be longer this time around tho.
Anyway, even in the most pessimistic of the cases 27+12 is 39. 6 minutes of other 4 "guitar driven" songs (one might be Iridiscent)... NAH. I think we can surely say there is a huge mistake. Otherwise, LP did an album 50 procent full-lenght and 50 procent interludes and that would not be nice. IMPOSSIBLE.
Better to calm down and wait for "official" things, not ignorant articles from ignorant people (looking at you, USA-Something).

 

So you guys trust a random french music website, but not the actual band member? Same guy also said there would be 12 tracks on the album. ...just sayin...

 

This. We're just speculating. 45 min IS TYPICAL if an album is 12-13 songs long. But ATS is 15 songs! It just doesn't make sense. M2M was about 45 min and it has 3 less songs. I guess no one can say for sure but if ATS was really 45 min, the fans would be getting a little ripped off, IMO. Because there would have to be 2-3 songs well under 3 minutes.

 

Mike commented on it, and the only things he said that were wrong were that there were 12 tracks and the second half were big rock songs.

 

Well yeah it is with the assumption that they were right. They were right about the length of The Catalyst as far as we know.

And Mike looked at the review himself and didn't mention the track lengths being wrong. So it's not that I trust them over the band, there just isn't much reason not to trust the times they gave and it's not unrealistic to assume Phoenix just used a general time.

But you're the LPU man Adam. If you know we're wrong tell us.

 

Even mike said two of the things weren't true. (12 track, and the second half being hard rock) So, we should trust that review anymore.

 

I don't think I own any albums over 50 minutes long. That's all I'm saying. That's a LOOOONG album if it's more than that. I could be wrong, because like I said, I haven't heard the whole thing, but I would be shocked if this thing was an hour long.

 

That's true Adam, but can't it be the magazine or whatever mistaken Dave's words? Or that they invented an interview, but that i don't think is possible...
As everybody noticed, they called Phoenix "a drummer".... it's not that professional to my eyes, specially in a time of promotion.

 

Where was the catalyst length confirmed? I heard the song multiple times at the video shoot and it didn't seem like it was nearly 6 minutes... again, that's LONG for a single...

 

Tool's 3rd album Lateralus is 1.3 hours long.. there are 13 tracks all over 6 minutes (with a few exeptions) so I think ATS will be somewhere around 50-60 minutes.. but who cares, as long as the music is good it doesn't matter.