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List Price: $25.98 | | Label: Virgin Records
Salesrank: 78817
Released: September 2, 2008 |
| Our Price: $17.48 |
| Used Price: $49.83 |
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| Media: Vinyl |
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Mer de Noms Track Listing:
1. Hollow
2. Magdalena
3. Rose
4. Judith
5. Orestes
6. 3 Libras
7. Sleeping Beauty
8. Thomas
9. Renhold�r
10. Thinking of You
11. Bre�a
12. Over
Editorial Review:
180 Gram/Audiophile pressing
Gatefold jacket/2 discs
Printed on original satin stock jacket
Description of Mer de Noms:
"A Perfect Circle is not a side project," proclaim the members of Perfect Circle. It's a caution worth heeding, since the most identifiable name in the band is that of vocalist Maynard James Keenan, lead singer of Tool. On the other hand, one wouldn't be much inclined to file this one under "side project" anyway. The musicians involved go to great lengths to create something distinctive, and if the uniformity of sound can be attributed to the fact that guitarist Billy Howerdel (whose previous songwriting credits include Tool, the Smashing Pumpkins, and David Bowie) is responsible for the lion's share of the music, well, the others aren't exactly marching in lockstep. Keenan's vocals here are quite different from anything heard from him before. Subtle, thoughtful, sober, they're a far cry from Keenan's work with Tool, which is what makes this album more than a side-project curiosity. Mer de Noms has a life all its own. --Genevieve Williams
Mer de Noms Reviews:
Perfect is the perfect word 
2009-09-22 - This is the most artistic, beautiful, creative CD I have ever heard. EVERY song is as amazing and haunting as the next. I'm just prey they get back together for a new album soon it's been too long without A Perfect Circle! Highly, HIGHLY recommended!
Tool's feminine voice 
2009-05-29 - Assured release from Keenan and a different, melodically dark company, successfully replaces crunching riffage with a slightly more soothingly eccentric palate, which produces the rare rock side project release beyond major reproach. Arguably more appealing than the increasingly bloated stagnation creeping into Tool's creativity at the time.
A Perfect Circle
2009-05-20 - I really like this CD. I never get tired of it. The songs are great.
Mer de Noms
2009-04-09 - This CD was AWESOME..Too bad A Perfect Circle has broken up and is no longer recording together. Buy all of their CD's they are great. In my opinion Better than TOOL..
If you're going to compare this to Tool...
2009-01-15 - ...go die. A Perfect Circle is its own project in its own field. Consider them a band rather than a mere side project.
It's rather disconcerting, not to mention frightening, to witness the number of drones around unwilling to give melodic structure a chance and brush it aside as 'not as good as...' The fact of the matter is that this is a great album. Consider it mainstream, sell-out, bland, or whatever the junk else you deem 'applicable' to this album. It won't change the fact that it is a worthy mention and far better than what the world deems popular these days.
'3 Libras' is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. I believe that will be the only track in which I will mention specifically. The rest of the record deserves an honest and OBJECTIVE listen. Go into it thinking it's something different, not a spin-off. If you do that, it will make the experience more enjoyable and perhaps enlightening.
