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Lead Performance: Alice in Chains; Genre: Rock
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Tom Sinclair
Tom Sinclair is a senior writer for EW and has been called "the handsomest man in rock criticism'' (by his wife)
Alice In Chains Jar of Flies (Columbia) This EP is quite a departure from the lugubrious junkie rock of the band's earlier albums. Among the surprises: a countryish campfire song (''Don't Follow''), a sappy bit of '70s-style fluff (''No Excuses''), and a slice of postmodern boogie-woogie (''Swing on This''). It all goes down easy, but where Alice's breakthrough album, Dirt, captured the despair of men wallowing in a spiritual cesspool, Flies merely sounds like the same guys dangling their feet in muddy water. B- -Tom Sinclair
Posted Jan 28, 1994
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