Slash's Snakepit
Ain't Life Grand

Second work of the "Manicomio di Slash".
The beginning is energetic with distorted guitars, a well-structured verse, and a chorus that is easy to remember. It continues with "Just like anything", whose introduction, with some percussion, might immediately suggest a moment of the album's stasis, but then Mr. Slash's guitar riff bursts in. "Shine" presents itself with a not heavy pace, very sonically diluted in the unfolding of the piece with the inclusion of some keyboard pads. The hand gets heavier on the guitars only a little in the chorus. The first truly slow piece of the entire album arrives at track n°5 with "Back to the moment": a prelude of acoustic guitars then flows into electric guitars that outline a small theme that is pleasant in the song, naturally before the inevitable solo. The solid wall of distorted guitars and dirty riffs continues with the following tracks: "Life's sweet drug," "Serial killer," "Landslide".
We arrive at track n°10, the title track, which represents a slightly different dimension both in terms of the sounds heard so far on this album and for the sonic attitude developed so far by Slash: the piece presents itself as a classic blues with the inclusion of some brass as well: fun. Perhaps the most pleasant track of the entire album. The album concludes with two more tracks of decidedly hard-rock mold: nothing new.
Here it is: nothing new. That's exactly the point.

The band led by the former Guns could have dared by doing something slightly different, maybe surprising everyone since the possibilities are certainly not lacking. Sure, the album is pleasant and flows with a certain enjoyment, but even the latest release with Velvet Revolver, while being a more than decent work, seems to want to spin 1,000 times the same pizza.
That Slash does something different, I hope it's not just a wish but that it becomes a reality because I would be sorry to see him in a few years still bursting in with riffs of dubious inspiration. Still, overall, a good "genre" album.