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Being in Tool<\/a><\/strong> has to be annoying sometimes. No matter when they put a new record, no matter who or what the interview is with or about, the topic of new music will inevitably come up. Tool<\/a><\/strong> bassist Justin Chancellor<\/strong> has recently been in the “new material when?” crosshairs, answering the question by mentioning the band is creatively moving forward<\/a>.<\/p>\n Though in a new interview with NME<\/a><\/em>, Chancellor<\/strong> revealed why Tool<\/a><\/strong> isn’t interested in simply writing and releasing standalone singles. Chancellor<\/strong> notes that Tool<\/a><\/strong> is more interested in the overarching picture of an EP or an album, and that standalone singles would only be cool if they ended up forming a full-length record.<\/p>\n “Absolutely. Looking at how things are released and consumed by the public these days, it’s more common to release even just a single. That’d be an interesting approach for us because we’ve always waited until we’ve created a whole body of work and made it polished and refined and perfect. So it’d be an exciting idea to go \u2018Well, every time we finish a song, we could just record that and release it’. That being said, the way that we like to do stuff is to present a whole package with the art and with a theme to it\u2026 so an EP would be a good compromise between an album and a single. To get a couple of really juicy tracks together and release them on a shorter version of an album.<\/p>\n “Another idea is to release singles one at a time, then once they’re all once we’ve accumulated to the length of an album we’ll put that together in a package and release it as an album. That way you could still have a physical vinyl and do all the artwork and all that stuff.<\/p>\n “I still think that by writing a whole album, you get really deep into the vibe of the piece and it turns into something further reaching and makes your work a little deeper. But for now, it’s pretty flexible, which is exciting. As soon as we’ve got something ready to go, there’s a choice of different outlets.”<\/p>\n Alternatively, Tool<\/a><\/strong> could just pull a Sleep<\/a><\/strong> and write one really long song as an EP. They got pretty close with “7empest” and its nearly 16 minute runtime.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n