Not many bands can be said to have a unique sound. Everything sounds like bits and pieces of everything else, and that's just fine. Necessary, even. Some of my favorite bands are the least original ones, like The Hold Steady, who take an idea, a sound that's been around, and play it better than anyone. But when you get a band that takes their influences, mixes it with their own talents and creates something impressive and original, well, that's fairly incredible. From where I'm sitting (on a dinner table chair next to my bed, for the record), that band is Tool.
