A Perfect Circle: Eat The Elephant 2LP Vinyl

Why you'll love it

Eat The Elephant back on vinyl as a 2LP set, three songs a side. It ended a 14-year wait for a new A Perfect Circle album, debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 and went top 10 in eight other countries, with "The Doomed", "Disillusioned", "TalkTalk" and "So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish" out ahead of it.

This edition

2LP set
12 tracks across four sides, three to a side

About the album

Maynard James Keenan and Billy Howerdel started kicking around new A Perfect Circle songs as early as 2008, and then, for the best part of a decade, very little happened. Both men had other bands and other priorities, and they couldn't agree where this one should go. It took producer Dave Sardy and a burst of work through 2017 to get them over the line, and Eat The Elephant finally arrived in April 2018, the band's first album since Emotive in 2004.

It's a calmer, more piano-led record than the old ones, with electronic textures folded in and Keenan taking aim at religion, politics and people's general failure to take responsibility for anything. "The Doomed" brings the heaviness, "So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish" is a bright, sly pop song about losing your heroes, and the title track opens on a soft piano figure that tells you to settle in. As for how you eat an elephant, the answer here appears to be slowly, over fourteen years, which we respect.