Eat the Elephant 2LP

Fourteen years after Emotive, A Perfect Circle broke their own pattern and let an outside producer, Dave Sardy, into the room alongside Billy Howerdel and Maynard James Keenan for Eat the Elephant, which opened at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. The songs hit hard and direct: "TalkTalk" throws a confirmed punch at American Christianity's gun politics, while the title track carries the weight of two suicides close to Howerdel. Heavy subjects, delivered without flinching.