Eat the Elephant by A Perfect Circle

Eat the Elephant, A Perfect Circle's fourth studio album, arrived on April 20, 2018, fourteen years after Emotive. Work on new songs had started as early as 2008, but Maynard James Keenan and Billy Howerdel, the band's two songwriters, kept getting pulled toward other projects and couldn't agree on where to take the band. Producer Dave Sardy helped break the logjam, and the sessions finally caught fire in 2017.

This is not the snarling Circle of Mer de Noms. Howerdel leans on piano and electronic textures, the tempos cool down, and Keenan turns his gaze on society, religion and politics, circling back again and again to people refusing to own up to what they do. "The Doomed" was the first single, out in October 2017, and it found a place on a countdown. Critics mostly hailed it as a comeback that had grown up, though a few missed the heavier stuff, and it opened at number 3 on the Billboard 200.

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