Sometimes they’re microcosms of the greater entity, but more often they’re detailed fragments reflecting back vibrant perspectives on art, humanity and society as a whole. Underground hip hop is often characterized by socially conscious, positive, or anti-commercial lyrics. It is typically associated with independent artists, signed to independent labels or no label at all.
So many of their individual compositions work as effective standalones, however. Underground hip hop is an umbrella term for hip hop music outside the general commercial canon.
Following their story step by step, song by song is the only path to enlightenment for their (many) obsessive devotees. It’s not just in the deep, dense, vertiginously complex music they make, either, but in their often contrarian approach to conducting the business of being in a band their unwillingness to be steered by their own success, and their insistence on delivering greatness on their own stubborn terms. Together, drummer Danny Carey, bassist Justin Chancellor (or his predecessor Paul D’Amour), guitarist Adam Jones and vocalist Maynard James Keenan are a band apart. In many ways, Tool’s back catalogue – a collection of songs three decades in the making yet only five albums deep – is less a discography to be listened to and more of a puzzle to be solved.
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