Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators
is quite a mouthful for a band and
World on Fire
is quite a handful for an album.
weighs in at 17 tracks, which is just one song longer than
Use Your Illusion I
, but where that record gained momentum (not to mention identity) through its mess,
gives the impression that they're just pouring out everything they have. Perhaps a good edit or two would've turned the record into something leaner, but there's no evident place to cut.
Slash
, naturally, stands out and his solos are nearly as pleasurable as his riffs, and
the Conspirators
hit their marks with aplomb, as does
Myles Kennedy
, who never gets in the way of songs, not even ones he's written. Such a long, hefty album may indeed be what some fans want, for there is a whole lot of bang for this buck. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine