3rd Secret : "s/t"

 Combining members of Soundgarden and Nirvana, and technically Pearl Jam as well considering Matt Cameron is also in Pearl Jam. It opens sounding more like the Sundays. The familiar sounds of grunge do not occur until the second song " I Choose Me". Energy wise I think the Pretty Reckless carried the torch better with last year's album. They smooth groove and smoother melodies is doing something different while being familiar and it's still pretty effective.  "Last Day of August" is well played guitar wise, but the overall vibe of the song sounds like a folk version of Hole.  "Winter Solstice" continues even further in a hippy direction with more of a folk feel than anything rock. 

"Lies Fade Away" finds a return to distorted guitar and more driven drumming. There is more of tension than heaviness.  Soundgarden's later work is what this comes closest to. There is none of the raw punk feel of Nirvana.  The 60s swagger of  " Live Without You" works well, but if these were some pot smoking witches from Sweden then it would add up more easily.  The same can not be said from the pola induced chaos of "Right Stuff' which seems unsure of which way it wants to go.  "Dead Sea" finds it back to the more Arizona hippy take on what Hole did. The melancholy melody is fine, but not the albums best or worst song.  They remember they were in rock bands again on "Diamond in the Cold" . I like the almost middle eastern drone that possesses the song going into it. 

"Somewhere in Time" is a more slinky rock song that has more in common with Alice in Chains than their other bands.  The riff reminds me a little on  Lynyrd Skynyrd's "On the Hunt". "the Yellow Dress' is back to a darker form of folk music, At this seven minute song builds it does so like a storm over the desert , ya know kinda of like the Doors.  It wanders around for half the song. This is not what I expected and perhaps that fact needs to grow on me, I will give this album an 8.5, do not go into this expecting for any of these guys to be picking up where they left off.