![]() There's nothing wrong with Pirner giving Soul Asylum's approach an update, but this batch of songs doesn't find a new groove so much as muddy the group's attack. Even the Led Zep-flavored guitar groove of "Can't Help It" has a funky undertow, and "Make It Real" plays more like a '90s dance track than Soul Asylum. With Murphy gone, Pirner has infused the band's trademark hard rock/punk hybrid with pop and R&B accents, laying in plenty of keyboards along with the guitars. But while Change of Fortune is certainly energetic, that sense of focus is gone, and these 12 songs wander all over the place. Murphy's last album with SA, Delayed Reaction, was their liveliest and best focused album in years. The band's co-founder, guitarist Dan Murphy, retired in late 2012, making Pirner the band's only original member and uncontested leader on their 11th studio album, Change of Fortune. In 2016, Dave Pirner is the last man standing in Soul Asylum. "Change of Fortune" is Soul Asylum's 11th full length studio album. All elements contributed to the band being credited with a grunge precursor title, a claim often recited in comparisons between pre-Nirvana Minneapolis and Seattle bands. One early review described their sound as follows: some unholy mix of Kiss and Hank Williams thrown under the wheels of a runaway train. ![]() Soul Asylum was formed in Minneapolis in 1983 mixing tuneful but unrestrained punk, hardcore, 1970s rock, country and self-effacing kitsch. ![]()
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