That’s it, then. It’s here – now what? Not having a new Tool album has sort of become the status quo, hasn’t it? The very absence itself is the long-standing reality of things, an ongoing semi-joke rooted in an unmoving truth that they were working on what was effectively Schrödinger’s album – a piece both existent and not, eternally suspended in the aspic of being apparently nearly complete, but still as distant as the end of a rainbow. As its release finally – let’s be honest, still slightly unexpectedly – arrives, there is a feeling of unpreparedness. What does the dog do once it has its tail in its mouth?The way one should approach Fear Inoculum’s near 90 minutes for the first time is in one large binge, without distraction, chatter nor interval. You need simply to experience it a...