Euphoria Morning, with its undeniable charisma, desperation, and playfulness, is paralleled in its “solo” brilliance only by Jason Falkner and Jeff Buckley.
Not what you’d expect from Bill Rieflin, Ministry’s drummer from ’86 to ’94. Birth of a Giant is skewed art-rock semi-atonal musings much in the Crimson style.
With the pretensions of both parties, the result is a clash of plunder-minded egos that fans of both of these rock’n’roll Napoleons are gonna find annoying.
A diverse collection of tunes á la Scott Weiland’s underrated solo disc. While the above mentioned songs fail to grab me, there are some masterpieces here.
What a disappointment. Chris Cornell was the singer in a fine rock band. What did he do after the band broke up? He made a wimpy singer/songwritery solo album.
180 degrees from their last output (the math-metalcore of Until Your Heart Stops), Cave-In’s new EP spits in the faces of Hessians and hardcore tough guys.
At their best, they resemble X with two Exenes. At their most neutral, they toss off an okay alt-country jangle. At their worst, they’re AOR radio schmucks.
They play not-very-interesting mid-tempo rock with a halfway decent sense of hooks and frequent obliging nods to Lennon/McCartney, Lou Reed, and Tom Verlaine.