Artist: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Title: Origin Vol. 1 [domestic version]
Label: Republic-Universal
Format: CD
Price: $8.08 15% off until March 22nd

Finally TSOOL's latest album "Origin Vol. 1" will be available in the U.S. next week and Republic-Universal's version is new and even improved… Word from kaftan-clad lead vocalist Ebbot Lundberg is that the entire album has been re-mastered slightly (and for the better he says) and there's an extended intro for the lovely ballad "Song For The Others" on this version. The U.S. also comes with two bonus tracks: the Pink Floyd-on-steroids, uber-multi-track vocal trip that is "World Bank" and the Bjorn Olsson-meets-Morricone-esque "To Somewhere Else", one of Ebbot's personal favorites from all the "Origin" recordings, which was not finished in time for the European release. Beside the bonus tracks of course there's the totally rocking new album, which includes the all-over-college-radio zoom-rock single "Bigtime", the Ebbot/Jane Birkin duet "Midnight Children", the West Coast harmonies of "Lone Summer Dream", and two of my favorite incendiary rockers from the TSOOL canon: "Mother One Track Mind" and "Royal Explosion". Total godhead. Can't wait to see them detonate these live! Not coincidentally, the release of "Origin" coincides with a month-long U.S. tour, dates available at TSOOL's similarly new and even improved U.S. website. But it is their Official Site where the true TSOOL freaks go to exchange the minutiae and ponder the possibilities. Speaking of which...the follow-up Origin Vol. 2 is waiting in the wings.