As you might expect for someone who’s in three bands, is a sometime actor, has just written a graphic novel, has become a mushroom farmer, rears chickens and ducks and is starting a gin project, there’s no such thing as a regular day for Maynard James Keenan.
Somewhere amid this “fun chaos” (his words) has emerged the excellent Normal Isn’t, the new record from Puscifer, the Tool and A Perfect Circle ringleader Keenan’s shapeshifting, genrejumping, alt.rock-ish, electro-tinged side project that – given that it’s now the most prolific output vehicle for Keenan’s restless creativity – probably shouldn’t be called a side project any more. After all, he needs something to do when the grapes are picked and the ducks and chickens have laid all the eggs they can muster.
