Album Rating: 3.0

Ah, don't know... I can only say what I feel and the new stuff is indeed lacking something for me. It somehow feels too polished, too costructed. I just don't feel it anymore...

Album Rating: 4.0

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Album Rating: 4.0

The new stuff and this album in particular is amazing, when it happened it was beyond any of my expectations. Duvall is the perfect replacement, he has the voice, the charisma and the attitude to make this band happen.

Album Rating: 5.0

Bummed you don't like it Davil. I can see what you mean about it being too polished.

Album Rating: 4.0

Devil was a bit mechanical but this? Na, sorry Davil but this record has tons of heart.

Album Rating: 2.5

If Cantrell was the heart his solo stuff would be better respected and there would be no need for him to work under the name AIC.



Some other clean livin' dude singing Layne's lyrics just feels phoney to me, that's just where we are.



The new incarnation haven't recorded a song that would make a top 20 AIC cuts lets be real here, so you have to say they're just a 'lesser vehicle'...lesser equates to tarnishing, sorry again.

Album Rating: 2.5

'Private Hell' is maybe top 30 Chains though, and this has a 2.5 rating for being a proficient if 'personality free' rock record.

Album Rating: 4.0

Doofus, you're being mean

Album Rating: 5.0

top 40 chains, lmao



personality free



lmao

Album Rating: 2.5

I’m being real.



Boggy Depot showed where Cantrell’s true leanings went...going softer, some country influences emerging. Deep down dude knows that, just like Josh Homme, like most riff masters, his best are behind him and there’s no way he comes up with enough to have 8-9 heavy tracks an album.



His own voice also suits a softer, country bent. Should have carried on in that direction for artistic reasons but...



Everyone got a wife to feed so he hit the metalhead nostalgia trail (it pays) and hired a healthy ‘no trouble’ rent-a-bleat copycat to sing and got the team back together. Cha-ching!

Album Rating: 2.5

Should have aged gracefully recording stuff that lands somewhere between Jar of Flies and ‘Between’ but the metal fan base have a nostalgia weakness and fat fat wallets

Album Rating: 5.0

what is happening. doofus you dead to me wtf... is life going okay? Fine if you don't dig the album, but your implication that the album is a cash-grab in any way is fucking repugnant. This is Jerry's tribute to Layne ffs.

Album Rating: 2.5

Could have put a tribute on a solo album. Dunno how having some random sing Layne’s hyper personal lyrics on tour is that much of a respectful tribute, esp when it pays a hundred times better than your solo gig.



My buddy met Jerry and tried to have a chat, said he was a big fan, dude was an utter cunt. My bud plays in a band and meets a fair few musicians...Cantrell was the biggest prick. I can believe it tbh

Album Rating: 5.0

I don't know about any of that, but you're clearly being biased against this album for reasons other than the music imo. I can relate to having a bf die and not knowing how to deal with it so I sympathize with Jerry. But even that aside, this album isn't even close to tarnishing Layne's legacy, if anything it's fervently honouring it.

Album Rating: 2.5

I listened to this album a lot when it came out, I was going through a very painful breakup and it made sense...but honestly, despite listening to this best part of forty times I'd struggle to hum a tune.



It just isn't that memorable and I find people rating this the same as old AIC a little...strange bordering on clueless. I won't say disrespectful.



Surprised anyone is still listening to it but fair play.

Album Rating: 4.0

"what is happening. doofus you dead to me wtf... is life going okay? Fine if you don't dig the album, but your implication that the album is a cash-grab in any way is fucking repugnant. This is Jerry's tribute to Layne ffs. " [2]

Album Rating: 2.5

To be fair there have been a lot of tributes to Layne, 'Unplugged' served as a tribute as after he died it took on greater meaning, then there were benefit gigs, plus some of Cantrell's solo songs were possibly about Layne/Cobain/etc.



just this nu-Chains have been going bloody ages now and the best song so far has been 'Private Hell' and honestly they are such a lesser version of the original that if they end out going on longer than the REAL AIC I could just weep at how lame that is.



Plus, y'know, Jerry's solo stuff was better than this and felt more honest anyway.



Most arguments about this end up 'but, but...Elton John!' - yes, that mark of grief-porn authenticity. Album is a true candle in the wind.

Album Rating: 5.0

This album is perfection to me, and I'm as surprised by that as anyone. I fully expected this to be sub-par trash, but then I listened to it and against all odds it turned out to the best thing it could possibly be somehow. Sorry about your break up dude, it always sucks when that shit taints albums. I think their last album deserves this kind of bile but not this one, no way.

Album Rating: 2.5

I have it on a 2.5 - it's ok. If 'Dirt' and 'Jar of Flies' are both strong 4.5's then this can only be a 2.5.



I think my breakup benefitted the album at the time, because the mood was perfect - it's after that it just didn't seem to have a place and the band kept on soldiering on, not improving, but getting worse.



If this was the launchpad to some really memorable albums I'm sure I'd have a little more fondness for it and I'd understand its place in the universe.



As it is it lands as the opening chapter to an entirely regrettable musical episode.

Album Rating: 5.0

Why can't it just be taken on its own terms though? I feel pretty bleak about AiC right now as well, but that doesn't have to tarnish this album, even if it may have been a false promise for the future of sorts. This helped me bury Layne, I really had no idea how to do that for a long time until this album.