Album Rating: 4.0

Really liking that new single, great stuff.

Album Rating: 4.0

More than that, it's cool that his identity and voice have finally become a part of AiC. This is one of the first songs where I'm not even remotely reminded of Layne. Plus, that chorus is yuuuuge.

Album Rating: 4.0

The prior singles were decent but tbh I really want them to continue with the direction of the latest single.



Felt so fresh and ye, that chorus is bangin.

Album Rating: 4.0

New single rules

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah I'm getting a really good feeling about this album, and it's only 53 mins long!

That was my biggest problem with their last record, too fucking long

Album Rating: 4.0

easily the best from the 3, great vibes from this one



so far under was aight too, didnt like the first one, fuckin excited for drone though, heard it's hella doomy

Album Rating: 4.0

Wow that single is amazing. Got chills at first listen, one of the better songs they did with William

Album Rating: 5.0

This album is one long grief session over Layne, and that's what makes it so fucking powerful and heart-wrenching. But since they got that out of their system, it's just been business as usual unfortunately. I can't remember a single second from Dinosaurs, but this new album is moderately better. But it's just not emotionally affecting at all so far for me. The ballads are especially not doing it for me on the new one. The ballads on this one are just emotional steamrollers.

Album Rating: 4.0

^

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah, well said rtisw.

Album Rating: 4.0

Also all the songs here are just much more captivating and well crafted than on the latter 2 releases

Album Rating: 5.0

I mean I think this albums better than the other two as well but Lesson Learned and Take Her Out are pretty generic straightforward rock songs. It's not like every track on this album is perfect.

Album Rating: 5.0

no, fuck you those 2 songs are the jams. shorter and simpler but i love them too. this is a flawless album for me and i still can't believe they found this Duvall guy.

Album Rating: 4.0

Too bad they're too afraid to experiment/ change their style atleast a little

I mean come on do something different, do they not see that since Dinosaurs they are recycling the same shit over and over? :[

They're lucky their core sound is so great, they can get away with not stepping outside their comfort zone, but comparing their post Layne stuff to their older records- ehh.

Album Rating: 4.0

Imo Rainier Fog is a light 4 and this is a hard 4

Album Rating: 3.5

Agreed. I prefer Rainier Fog.

Album Rating: 4.0

"Too bad they're too afraid to experiment/ change their style atleast a little"



Lol. The band has literally faced down death. Twice. Plus a decade+ of neckbeard fans whining about DuVall not being Layne. I doubt that fear is a factor.

Album Rating: 4.0

Sure William will never top Layne but what can you do, he's a great singer too and I have no problem with him

My point is that since Dinosaurs they've been putting out so much samey shit it's saddening

When Layne was here the quality of the band as a whole was much better, so much interesting and memorable shit, almost every song on every album had it's own unique indentity, and was just amazing

Now it's more like 3-4 pretty fucking great memorable songs on an album, the rest is either samey and passable (like on Dinosaurs) or boring and forgettable (like on Rainier Fog) and noone will prove me otherwise

Album Rating: 4.0

With very few exceptions artists in their fifties are never as productive or as groundbreaking as artists in their twenties. You can't really compare a band of dudes in middle age living comfortable middle aged lives with wives and children and gardens to tend to with a band of hungry young twenty-somethings living on the street and surviving from fix to fix and experimenting recklessly with their image, music and drugs.

Alice in Chains was vital in the '90s because they were on the envelope of contemporary music. Now they're just experienced dudes who make music fuelled by experience rather than emotion. Expecting them to suddenly flip the script and reinvent themselves or rock music is kind of foolhardy.

Album Rating: 4.0

It’s yourrrr decisioooooon