Black Gives Way To Blue

First of all i'd like to point something out, i'm old...not incontinent, need help with solids, living in a home old but as far as the music business is concerned, old. As are Alice in Chains, they're from a bygone age when plaid ruled the world and it was cool to not wash your hair.

They also rocked...hard. As does this album which is far better than it has any right to be. Ok it sounds at once new and old, fresh and fusty, as if you've always had it in your record collection, as if it was recorded and released in 1992 but it's also all the better for it.

A throwback to a more innocent time before we all became cynical, when we actually cared about our bands and what they sounded like. This is what hard rock should sound like, as if they have returned to redress the balance after rock got sidetracked with looking like it worked in Topshop.

Great songs, great riffs, great vocals (alas, Layne's not missed here), great return to form after a long absence.

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First of all i'd like to point something out, i'm old...not incontinent, need help with solids, living in a home old but as far as the music business is concerned, old. As are Alice in Chains, they're from a bygone age when plaid ruled the world and it was cool to not wash your hair.

They also rocked...hard. As does this album which is far better than it has any right to be. Ok it sounds at once new and old, fresh and fusty, as if you've always had it in your record collection, as if it was recorded and released in 1992 but it's also all the better for it.

A throwback to a more innocent time before we all became cynical, when we actually cared about our bands and what they sounded like. This is what hard rock should sound like, as if they have returned to redress the balance after rock got sidetracked with looking like it worked in Topshop.

Great songs, great riffs, great vocals (alas, Layne's not missed here), great return to form after a long absence.

An absolute must buy...help the aged!