Tool’s Justin Chancellor says new material could arrive as a run of singles: “It’d be an exciting idea”
nme.comTool’s Justin Chancellor says new material could arrive as a run of singles saying that it would be “an exciting idea” to do so.Speaking to NME in a new interview, Chancellor was asked if new material from the band could come as an EP – something band member Danny Carey had previously hinted at.When asked if that was something the band – comprised of Maynard James Keenan, Adam Jones, Chancellor and Carey – were still open to, Chancellor replied in the affirmative.He said: “Absolutely.
Looking at how things are released and consumed by the public these days, it’s more common to release even just a single. That’d be an interesting approach for us because we’ve always waited until we’ve created a whole body of work and made it polished and refined and perfect.“So it’d be an exciting idea to go, ‘Well, every time we finish a song, we could just record that and release it’.
That being said, the way that we like to do stuff is to present a whole package with the art and with a theme to it… so an EP would be a good compromise between an album and a single.
To get a couple of really juicy tracks together and release them on a shorter version of an album.”He continued: “Another idea is to release singles one at a time, then once they’re all once we’ve accumulated to the length of an album we’ll put that together in a package and release it as an album.
Read more on nme.com