Album Review: Audioslave by Audioslave

Kurt Cobain’s distressing angst has returned by way of his diaries, and Pearl Jam, on the comeback trail, seem to want our love again. But nothing quite makes you want to retrieve that faded Lollapalooza T-shirt from the thrift-store pile like the sound of Chris Cornell once again in full-throated yowl. On Audioslave, his collaboration with three ex-members of Rage Against the Machine, Cornell unleashes his wail in ways he hasn’t since the glory days of Soundgarden; next to him, the nu-metal pouters just sound like pouty adolescents.

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