Velvet Revolver Aims, Misfires

noah | June 25, 2007 11:55 am
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ARTIST: Velvet Revolver TITLE: Libertad WEB DEBUT: June 23, 2007 RELEASE DATE: July 3, 2007 SOUND QUALITY: 229 kbps (VBR) ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: The mathematics of this band dictate that any of its recorded output should be at least halfway decent, right? Perhaps forgetting about what it was like to listen to Contraband, we went into this album with visions of hearing hard rock that would cross “Big Bang Baby” with “My Michelle.” But listening to Libertad‘s by-the-numbers hard rock, full of sub-Buckcherry swagger and guitar solos that make Slash’s contribution to “Black Or White” sound virtuostic–not to mention the liberal use of cowbell–had only one real effect on us: We went to iTunes and downloaded the new album by Izzy Stradlin. WHERE TO FIND THE BEST TRACK: We’re just as shocked as you that there aren’t many music blogs posting songs from this record–but ROCKNROLLPIMP has a stream of “Sex Type Thing ’07” “She Mine.”