ALICE IN CHAINS — Dirt (review)

ALICE IN CHAINS — Dirt album cover Album · 1992 · Alternative Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Warthur
If you remember the 1990s and the alternative music scene of the time, putting on Dirt will instantly take you back there. The production style, performance aesthetic, and general approach of the album is absolutely rooted in the grunge era, and in the hands of a less talented crew this would put the album at risk of becoming seriously dated.

What saves it is that, as well as capturing a zeitgeist perfectly, Alice In Chains also completely burn the house down on Dirt. Mashing up a grunge aesthetic and well-honed alternative metal chops with a doomy approach which ensures the album has plenty to offer more traditional metal fans, the band wheel out classic tune after classic tune. making this perhaps one of the best grunge-metal crossover albums to ever emerge from that brief Seattle-spawned scene.

That said, the album's arguably frontloaded with the best material - Them Bones is an absolute banger - and that classic 1990s grunge production style is laid on thick here. For some, that will make this feel instantly familiar and comfortable, but for other listeners - either those who didn't live through the 1990s when this stuff was everywhere, or those who did and either bounced off it or got sick of it - that'll get old quick.
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