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Louder Than Love [CD]

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Soundgarden's Louder Than Love arrives here on CD, the 1989 album where Seattle's heaviest band took its sludge, swagger and Sabbath-sized riffs to a major label without sanding off a single rough edge.

Signed to A&M after a run of independent releases, the band refused to tidy up for the bigger stage. Instead they doubled down on drop-tuned guitars and lurching grooves, building a bridge between the punk-fed Seattle underground and classic heavy metal a couple of years before the rest of the world came looking for grunge.

Chris Cornell's voice is the headline, a howl that can go from a sneer to a full siren in one breath. On "Hands All Over" he aims it at humanity's careless treatment of the planet over a hypnotic, rolling groove, while "Loud Love" swells out of a wall of feedback before Kim Thayil's guitar locks into one of the band's most swaggering riffs.

"Get On The Snake" crawls along on Matt Cameron's heavy-footed drumming, and "Ugly Truth" proves the band could write a hook as sharp as any of its riffs. Terry Date's production keeps everything thick and close, as if the band is playing a few feet away in a sweaty club.

For anyone tracing Seattle's path to Badmotorfinger and Superunknown, this is where the ambition starts to show.

UPC:075021525221

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