Title: huge disappointment !!
Review: When you have a legacy like Janes Addiction, putting out an album after 13 years is no easy task. Maybe Janes just shouldnt have bothered. The main ingredients in this lackluster album are warmed over riffs, mundane lyrics and an absense of the charm that made Janes Addiction a classic band. Only the excellent single, Just Because rises to the stature that the bands previous material set. The first few songs are alright, but is this really the band that changed popular music less than 20 years ago? Strays makes it apparent just how important departed bassist Eric Avery was to the songwriting of this band. Who knows, maybe this is a sound that will bring Janes more commercial success than their previous records, but as a longtime fan, I found this to be a huge letdown.
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