Corporate Line: The highly anticipated Zig Zag is Slick’s first album of new material in 12 years and features four instrumentals and a half-dozen tracks co-written by guest stars such as Bowie, Robert Smith of The Cure, Martha Davis, Spacehog’s Roy Langdon and Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott. “The idea to do a record came to me in 2000,” says Slick.
The Good:
“Believe” f/Robert Smith – Robert Smith hasn’t sounded this good in a decade. IT’s a track that fits him like a lace glove.
“Isn’t It Evening” f/David Bowie – Maybe Bowie could work with Earl Slick on his new record considering he hasn’t done anything his good in quite some time.
The Average:
“Psycho Twang” f/Joe Elliot – This isn’t your daddy’s Def Leppard.
“Zig Zag” f/Royston Langdon – Sufficient but not the best Langdon has to offer nor Slick. It leans towards the repetitive.
Earl Slick gives us five instrumental songs, and although they aren’t bad per se they aren’t something I’d be listening to more than once.
The Ugly:
Nah.
Frankly: Earl Slick has a good hand at offering us good songs that required someone to connect and he hit the nail on the head with Robert Smith and David Bowie.
+ Rae Gun
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