Toto - Mindfields (1999, Legacy)
Over your left shoulder / I have seen the angry beast / Heard the war horn screaming / As they gather for the feast / Seen a star-crossed angel with the death-card and a shield...
The Lowdown
As the band's 20th anniversary came and went, Toto hunkered back down in the wake of
Tambu and decided to record something ambitious. And they had every reason to try: founding singer Bobby Kimball had cleaned up and was back in the game, and ended up contributing quite a bit from both a performance and songwriting position to the album that would become 1999's
Mindfields. Clocking at nearly 80 minutes, it is Toto's longest studio outing and one of their most diverse as well, with a variety of 3rd party songwriting credits and unusual ideas strewn about that gives the album an unusual feel within their body of work.
Commercially, the record did well everywhere except the U.S. upon release in November of that year. The band did a big tour to support it and came back feeling rather optimistic. This marked the beginning of Toto's last and latest musical period as the twenty first century approached, and still the band survived and soldiered onward....