Thirteenth Step by A Perfect Circle

Pros: Intricate, well crafted songs. Moody, dark ethereal production.
Cons: Perhaps too abstract for some?

A Perfect Circle's Thirteenth step provides a well recorded, atmospheric musical journey courtesy of some well crafted and detailed songs. The short review for the impatient is that I reckon this is a bloody good album. If you want a longer story, rea ...

Pros: A true work of art.
Cons: This is a negative term & does not apply.

After my long, anticipated wait for "Thirteenth Step" to be released my wait finally came to an end. I rushed right out to get it. It's obvious with the opening of "The Package" that APC has grown & matured. The progress of this band is overwhelming ...

Pros: Jeordie Orsborne White on bass, eclectic mix of music
Cons: Some songs seem too short, like "The Noose"

Alright. I’m throwing away the fact that my favorite band in the world is Tool. I’m throwing out the fact that my favorite vocalist in the world is Maynard James Keenan. I’m throwing out the fact that this album is TOTALLY different than APC’s last ...

Pros: Maynard James Keenan.. Rich, powerful, stimulating.
Cons: Nope.

Coming, as it does, near the end of one of one of the most musically drab years I can remember, “Thirteenth Step” comes as such a powerful blast of fresh air that I’m afraid my opinion might be somewhat skewed by the sheer novelty of it. I haven’t had s ...

Pros: A radical change to ambient, sonic beauty, without compromising the band's core virtues
Cons: An offensive term not applied to discs like this one.

There are precious few things in life that can be truly relied upon. Humans, for all their virtues, have an inexplicable tendency to change, backstab and prove wholly unreliable. Cars break down. Stuff falls apart. Computers crash and delete entire re ...

Pros: Maynards voice, A story like formation of the album. the sound, the riffs.. everything!
Cons: not a good album for singles, weak and powerless not my song of choice.

When I first heard Thirteenth Step I was disappointed. After listening to a couple times, ... I realized the entire album spans a story of a drug addict that is so sick of the world around him he spirals into depression and insanity, only to lift himse ...

Pros: Keenan's beautiful voice, Howerdel's music, the lyrical genius that is A Perfect Circle.
Cons: Excuse me? I think not.

Summary Ye Gods! I was turned on to A Perfect Circle by one of my good friends, and the instant I heard the CD, I was infatuated. After attending their concerts, I have nothing to say but that this is indisputably one of the greatest ...

Pros: Brilliant music, brilliant idea, just a brilliant album
Cons: "Crimes" and "Blue".... maybe

WARNING: This review may be a little long, this entire album tells a story that I believe should be correctly analyzed. There are times in which music is not even the main focal point of the album; this is one of those times. Back in 2000, Virgin ...

Pros: Melodically beutiful and awesome drums (Josh Freese is the Awesome!!!!!!!!)
Cons: A few weak songs (but easily made up for)

I really hate reading those stupid 5 page reviews, which give a detailed description of every song so i will make this blunt. I love a perfect cirlce, ever since i heard that Marynard had a side project (Tool is the best band in the world, though with ...

Pros: Transcendant sound scapes take music art to a new level of thought and wisdom,
Cons: Erm, it will leave you and the world feeling numb around you after its over

Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd like to introduce myself, for I am a young chap who has been interested in music for quite a while now, and since this is my first review I just like you guys to bare with me. Please mention that you thought this review was helpf ...

Pros: Great lyrical content, unified sound
Cons: Occasionally boring, almost universally slow-paced

I wasn't actually going to buy this album, but it's tough to watch p unkrawka get flat-out giddy about an album I'm not going to buy. Indeed, his review pushed me off the proverbial fence, as I'm not a huge fan of A Per ...

Pros: Angelic and demonic.The best of tool meets it's softer side.
Cons: The albums to me are never long enough. In this case fourty minutes isn't.

I warn all: Mainly a verbatim of the lyrics from the songs off of this album [true some of these songs appear on APC's website-only 2 songs... state full-lyrics,but I wondered and decifered the rest by ear]...technically my review is in my comments of ...

Pros: Still APC. Still great. Plenty of tracks for you to love.
Cons: Not as magical as previous album. A couple of tracks feel mailed in.

Alright, review-boy, what's the story here? Well, I've been a passing, casual fan of Tool over the years. I appreciate some of their songs, and always turn up "Sober" and "Prison Sex" whenever they pop up on the radio, but I don't actually own ...

Pros: Harmonious, edgy, and captivating.
Cons: A shaky second half holds the album back from greatness.

Three years after the release of the maddeningly inconsistent Mer de Noms, A Perfect Circle returned with a more polished and determined album that blends all of the performers’ talents together with stunning regularity. It’s not quite ...

Pros: Peaceful, Calming, and any other synonyms for those words you can think of
Cons: It's not 100% consistant; a few tracks don't work

Maynard James Keenan obviously wasn’t looking to make a band that sounded like Tool with his side project, A Perfect Circle. But that makes sense: if he wanted to write Tool songs, he would’ve done them with Tool. Instead, “Thirteenth Step” is a ...