The Argument was released by Dischord Records on October 16, 2001, along with the EP Furniture . Arion Berger of Rolling Stone called the album “bracing” and “intellectual” and Chris True of AllMusic “spine-tingling and ear-shattering all at once”, writing, “the band has raised the bar for themselves and others…
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During a party in 2001, the band recorded a live Christmas album, A Very Arcade Xmas , which they are rumoured to have hand-distributed to their friends as a Christmas gift.
and then toured through South America and Europe in 2001.
For their fourth album, Comfort Eagle , the band signed a deal with Columbia Records . Comfort Eagle was both produced and arranged by the band, and was recorded at Paradise Studios in Sacramento and Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco. Following the recording, drummer Todd Roper left the band,…
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On September 26, 2001, the band appeared on Drew Carey’s Back-to-School Rock ‘n’ Roll Comedy Hour . In 2002 the band played select shows as the opener for NSYNC on their Celebrity Tour .
Phoenix Music re-issued a Tobruk retrospective in 2001 with rare tracks and video footage, called Recaptured .
International Superhits! in 2001
but left when he became a father in 2001.
The band’s members played in various bands during the 1990s, including The Karelia , Yummy Fur , 10p Invaders, and Embryo. Alex Kapranos and Paul Thomson met at a party and began a close friendship and played together in Yummy Fur, and subsequently teamed up to write songs. Around the…
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In January 2001, Tool announced a new album, Systema Encéphale , along with a 12-song track list containing titles such as “Riverchrist”, “Numbereft”, “Encephatalis”, “Musick”, and “Coeliacus”. File-sharing networks such as Napster were flooded with bogus files bearing the titles’ names. A month later, the band revealed that the new…
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