Artists starting with Soundgarden

Soundgarden, “Superunknown” (A & M, 1994)
In the wake of their often histrionic and derivative (if rousing) earlier work, Soundgarden suddenly pruned their excesses for a perfectly crafted, brutally direct exploration of bleak personal and social landscape. The combination of rhythmic dexterity and fluidity with towering torrential sonic onslaught matches their putative ‘70s model (rhymes with Fred Pepperdine) but with all the grandeur stripped away by twenty years of intervening despair and horror. They never came close before or after, but this is a masterpiece.
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7/29/13