Album Review: Living the Dream by Slash

Snapping back from the sprawling 2014 set World on Fire, Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators get down to business on Living the Dream, keeping their third album on the straight and narrow. That doesn't necessarily mean that they play it clean, though. Living the Dream is filled with dirty riffs and overdriven amps, which is expected from Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators, yet underneath that noisy surface, they focus on songs, delivering 12 tight tracks that coalesce into a tight album.

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I t's hardly uncommon for rock legends to make new music that has to compete against the memory of their past; it's rarer for them to be in direct competition with their own history. Slash's fourth solo album emerges in the midst of his continuing reunion with Axl Rose and Duff McKagan under the Guns N' Roses banner, and follows the deluxe reissue of Appetite for Destruction earlier this year. In fact, Living the Dream was recorded in breaks between last year's Guns tour ending and this one beginning.

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