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Kettle Whistle
11/04/1997 3:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
Tim Stegall
The release of a new Jane's Addiction record may be cause for pinata smashing and donkey molestation in some households, but not all of 'em. After all, if your cup of poison is more of a gut-basic rock n' roll variety, JA never seemed much beyond another heavy metal wankfest dressed in art-school clothing. It's hard to deny the massive impact they had upon what became alternative rock, but they say Benito Mussolini was pretty influential in some circles, too. Still, this band isn1t useless. The brand-new title track is a creation of beauty, mystery and tension, a truly delicious beast. And it's amazing how majestic a lot of this sounds if you1re traveling in a crowded van careening at 110 MPH through the swamps of Louisiana at about 4am, as you listen on headphones hurtling past huge dead trees rising from the mists like skeletal fingers. Maybe not the right environment for noise as conceptually urban as this, but environment can make all the difference.
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